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author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2016-10-07 17:01:37 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-07 18:46:29 -0700 |
commit | 8f26e0b176f3484c49d55d88fe6083a9cf9ff443 (patch) | |
tree | 817114a7c54148b01bd4dc4327b1bf84b4f5a158 /mm/sparse.c | |
parent | 86d12e471d9f152217744f2054e63e3742949879 (diff) |
mm: vma_merge: correct false positive from __vma_unlink->validate_mm_rb
The old code was always doing:
vma->vm_end = next->vm_end
vma_rb_erase(next) // in __vma_unlink
vma->vm_next = next->vm_next // in __vma_unlink
next = vma->vm_next
vma_gap_update(next)
The new code still does the above for remove_next == 1 and 2, but for
remove_next == 3 it has been changed and it does:
next->vm_start = vma->vm_start
vma_rb_erase(vma) // in __vma_unlink
vma_gap_update(next)
In the latter case, while unlinking "vma", validate_mm_rb() is told to
ignore "vma" that is being removed, but next->vm_start was reduced
instead. So for the new case, to avoid the false positive from
validate_mm_rb, it should be "next" that is ignored when "vma" is
being unlinked.
"vma" and "next" in the above comment, considered pre-swap().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474492522-2261-4-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.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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