From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Minchan Kim Subject: [PATCH v4 5/8] mm/madvise: employ mmget_still_valid for write lock Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:39:43 -0800 Message-ID: <20200212233946.246210-6-minchan@kernel.org> References: <20200212233946.246210-1-minchan@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20200212233946.246210-1-minchan@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: LKML , linux-mm , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, oleksandr@redhat.com, Suren Baghdasaryan , Tim Murray , Daniel Colascione , Sandeep Patil , Sonny Rao , Brian Geffon , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Shakeel Butt , John Dias , Joel Fernandes , Alexander Duyck , Minchan Kim List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org From: Oleksandr Natalenko Do the very same trick as we already do since 04f5866e41fb. KSM hints will require locking mmap_sem for write since they modify vm_flags, so for remote KSM hinting this additional check is needed. Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Natalenko Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim --- mm/madvise.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 276b9d81c1dd..71f0ba199ae8 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -1120,6 +1120,8 @@ int do_madvise(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long start, if (write) { if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem)) return -EINTR; + if (current->mm != mm && !mmget_still_valid(mm)) + goto skip_mm; } else { down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); } @@ -1170,6 +1172,7 @@ int do_madvise(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long start, } out: blk_finish_plug(&plug); +skip_mm: if (write) up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); else -- 2.25.0.225.g125e21ebc7-goog