Hugh Dickins
bbe98f9cad
Move collapse_huge_page()'s mmget_still_valid() check into
khugepaged_test_exit() itself. collapse_huge_page() is used for anon THP
only, and earned its mmget_still_valid() check because it inserts a huge
pmd entry in place of the page table's pmd entry; whereas
collapse_file()'s retract_page_tables() or collapse_pte_mapped_thp()
merely clears the page table's pmd entry. But core dumping without mmap
lock must have been as open to mistaking a racily cleared pmd entry for a
page table at physical page 0, as exit_mmap() was. And we certainly have
no interest in mapping as a THP once dumping core.
Fixes: 59ea6d06cf ("coredump: fix race condition between collapse_huge_page() and core dumping")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.8+]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2008021217020.27773@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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