mm: vm_page_prot: update with WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE

vma->vm_page_prot is read lockless from the rmap_walk, it may be updated
concurrently and this prevents the risk of reading intermediate values.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474660305-19222-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrea Arcangeli 2016-10-07 17:01:22 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6213055f2c
commit 6d2329f887
5 changed files with 13 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -1620,7 +1620,7 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
if (soft_dirty)
entry = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(entry);
} else {
entry = mk_pte(page + i, vma->vm_page_prot);
entry = mk_pte(page + i, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot));
entry = maybe_mkwrite(entry, vma);
if (!write)
entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);