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[PATCH] page_mkwrite caller race fix
authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:43:00 +0000 (01:43 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:51:17 +0000 (10:51 -0800)
commitc3704ceb4ad055b489b143f4e37c57d128908012
tree730892c9d4d9dbab03c77597e822a7cb79c9cd96
parentf05b6284ee5d3be51ebe22284fc4b25fc586f380
[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: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory.c