Commit 9cbb4cb2 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: find_get_pages_contig fixlet

Testing ->mapping and ->index without a ref is not stable as the page
may have been reused at this point.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f0bc0a60
......@@ -837,9 +837,6 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page))
goto restart;
if (page->mapping == NULL || page->index != index)
break;
if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
goto repeat;
......@@ -849,6 +846,16 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
goto repeat;
}
/*
* must check mapping and index after taking the ref.
* otherwise we can get both false positives and false
* negatives, which is just confusing to the caller.
*/
if (page->mapping == NULL || page->index != index) {
page_cache_release(page);
break;
}
pages[ret] = page;
ret++;
index++;
......
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