ARM: 8874/1: mm: only adjust sections of valid mm structures
A timing hazard exists when an early fork/exec thread begins exiting and sets its mm pointer to NULL while a separate core tries to update the section information. This commit ensures that the mm pointer is not NULL before setting its section parameters. The arguments provided by commit 11ce4b33 ("ARM: 8672/1: mm: remove tasklist locking from update_sections_early()") are equally valid for not requiring grabbing the task_lock around this check. Fixes: 08925c2f ("ARM: 8464/1: Update all mm structures with section adjustments") Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com> Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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