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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-08-20 14:09:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-08-20 15:40:32 -0700
commit538f8ea6c85232d00bfa5edd9ba85f16c01057c9 (patch)
treec1a4a49c0c7f16b4fe8ec560137084bf556efc50 /CREDITS
parent479db0bf408e65baa14d2a9821abfcbc0804b847 (diff)
mm: xip fix fault vs sparse page invalidate race
XIP has a race between sparse pages being inserted into page tables, and sparse pages being zapped when its time to put a non-sparse page in. What can happen is that a process can be left with a dangling sparse page in a MAP_SHARED mapping, while the rest of the world sees the non-sparse version. Ie. data corruption. Guard these operations with a seqlock, making fault-in-sparse-pages the slowpath, and try-to-unmap-sparse-pages the fastpath. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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