[PATCH] mm: pte_offset_map_lock loops
Convert those common loops using page_table_lock on the outside and
pte_offset_map within to use just pte_offset_map_lock within instead.
These all hold mmap_sem (some exclusively, some not), so at no level can a
page table be whipped away from beneath them. But whereas pte_alloc loops
tested with the "atomic" pmd_present, these loops are testing with pmd_none,
which on i386 PAE tests both lower and upper halves.
That's now unsafe, so add a cast into pmd_none to test only the vital lower
half: we lose a little sensitivity to a corrupt middle directory, but not
enough to worry about. It appears that i386 and UML were the only
architectures vulnerable in this way, and pgd and pud no problem.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 11d824f..902d4c9 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -228,9 +228,9 @@
{
pte_t *orig_pte;
pte_t *pte;
+ spinlock_t *ptl;
- spin_lock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
- orig_pte = pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
+ orig_pte = pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
do {
unsigned long pfn;
unsigned int nid;
@@ -246,8 +246,7 @@
if (!node_isset(nid, *nodes))
break;
} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
- pte_unmap(orig_pte);
- spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
+ pte_unmap_unlock(orig_pte, ptl);
return addr != end;
}