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-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index ebdf582ef18..2e38e904832 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page)
unsigned long anon_mapping;
rcu_read_lock();
- anon_mapping = (unsigned long) page->mapping;
+ anon_mapping = (unsigned long) ACCESS_ONCE(page->mapping);
if ((anon_mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS) != PAGE_MAPPING_ANON)
goto out;
if (!page_mapped(page))
@@ -666,7 +666,9 @@ static void __page_check_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
* @address: the user virtual address mapped
*
* The caller needs to hold the pte lock, and the page must be locked in
- * the anon_vma case: to serialize mapping,index checking after setting.
+ * the anon_vma case: to serialize mapping,index checking after setting,
+ * and to ensure that PageAnon is not being upgraded racily to PageKsm
+ * (but PageKsm is never downgraded to PageAnon).
*/
void page_add_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)