[PATCH] fix race in pagevec_strip?
We can call try_to_release_page() with PagePrivate off and a valid
page->mapping This may cause all sorts of trouble for the filesystem
*_releasepage() handlers. XFS bombs out in that case.
Lock the page before checking for page private.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index e9ec06d..b524ea9 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -393,7 +393,8 @@
struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];
if (PagePrivate(page) && !TestSetPageLocked(page)) {
- try_to_release_page(page, 0);
+ if (PagePrivate(page))
+ try_to_release_page(page, 0);
unlock_page(page);
}
}