From 5b40dc780ed996162f3af8712eb03beb24dcdbef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:04:07 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [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>
---
 mm/swap.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index e9ec06d845..b524ea90bd 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ void pagevec_strip(struct pagevec *pvec)
 		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);
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.39.5