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[ Upstream commit8782fb61cc] The mmap lock protects the page walker from changes to the page tables during the walk. However a read lock is insufficient to protect those areas which don't have a VMA as munmap() detaches the VMAs before downgrading to a read lock and actually tearing down PTEs/page tables. For users of walk_page_range() the solution is to simply call pte_hole() immediately without checking the actual page tables when a VMA is not present. We now never call __walk_page_range() without a valid vma. For walk_page_range_novma() the locking requirements are tightened to require the mmap write lock to be taken, and then walking the pgd directly with 'no_vma' set. This in turn means that all page walkers either have a valid vma, or it's that special 'novma' case for page table debugging. As a result, all the odd '(!walk->vma && !walk->no_vma)' tests can be removed. Fixes:dd2283f260("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.