[PATCH v7 2/8] mm: pagewalk: Take the pagetable lock in walk_pte_range()

Thomas Hellström (VMware) thomas_os at shipmail.org
Thu Nov 7 08:41:10 UTC 2019


From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>

Without the lock, anybody modifying a pte from within this function might
have it concurrently modified by someone else.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel at surriel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang at intel.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill at shutemov.name>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
---
 mm/pagewalk.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index d48c2a986ea3..c5fa42cab14f 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	pte_t *pte;
 	int err = 0;
 	const struct mm_walk_ops *ops = walk->ops;
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
 
-	pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
+	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
 	for (;;) {
 		err = ops->pte_entry(pte, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, walk);
 		if (err)
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		pte++;
 	}
 
-	pte_unmap(pte);
+	pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
 	return err;
 }
 
-- 
2.20.1



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