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authorFlorian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>2012-01-28 19:52:40 +0000
committerFlorian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>2012-01-28 19:52:40 +0000
commitb20f86625de738658c74f2ecfe4050416d2252cc (patch)
treeb84216b70bd923409217834a953f983700e39eda /kernel/futex.c
parent9f1065032ceb7e86c7c9f16bb86518857e88a172 (diff)
parentdcd6c92267155e70a94b3927bce681ce74b80d1f (diff)
Merge commit 'v3.3-rc1' into fbdev-next
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/futex.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c28
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index ea87f4d2f45..1614be20173 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -314,17 +314,29 @@ again:
#endif
lock_page(page_head);
+
+ /*
+ * If page_head->mapping is NULL, then it cannot be a PageAnon
+ * page; but it might be the ZERO_PAGE or in the gate area or
+ * in a special mapping (all cases which we are happy to fail);
+ * or it may have been a good file page when get_user_pages_fast
+ * found it, but truncated or holepunched or subjected to
+ * invalidate_complete_page2 before we got the page lock (also
+ * cases which we are happy to fail). And we hold a reference,
+ * so refcount care in invalidate_complete_page's remove_mapping
+ * prevents drop_caches from setting mapping to NULL beneath us.
+ *
+ * The case we do have to guard against is when memory pressure made
+ * shmem_writepage move it from filecache to swapcache beneath us:
+ * an unlikely race, but we do need to retry for page_head->mapping.
+ */
if (!page_head->mapping) {
+ int shmem_swizzled = PageSwapCache(page_head);
unlock_page(page_head);
put_page(page_head);
- /*
- * ZERO_PAGE pages don't have a mapping. Avoid a busy loop
- * trying to find one. RW mapping would have COW'd (and thus
- * have a mapping) so this page is RO and won't ever change.
- */
- if ((page_head == ZERO_PAGE(address)))
- return -EFAULT;
- goto again;
+ if (shmem_swizzled)
+ goto again;
+ return -EFAULT;
}
/*