Commit c3704ceb authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] page_mkwrite caller race fix

After do_wp_page has tested page_mkwrite, it must release old_page after
acquiring page table lock, not before: at some stage that ordering got
reversed, leaving a (very unlikely) window in which old_page might be
truncated, freed, and reused in the same position.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f05b6284
......@@ -1531,8 +1531,6 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite(vma, old_page) < 0)
goto unwritable_page;
page_cache_release(old_page);
/*
* Since we dropped the lock we need to revalidate
* the PTE as someone else may have changed it. If
......@@ -1541,6 +1539,7 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
*/
page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address,
&ptl);
page_cache_release(old_page);
if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte))
goto unlock;
}
......
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