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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/madvise.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index deff1b64a08..14d260fa0d1 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/ksm.h> #include <linux/fs.h> +#include <linux/file.h> /* * Any behaviour which results in changes to the vma->vm_flags needs to @@ -204,14 +205,16 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma, { loff_t offset; int error; + struct file *f; *prev = NULL; /* tell sys_madvise we drop mmap_sem */ if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_NONLINEAR|VM_HUGETLB)) return -EINVAL; - if (!vma->vm_file || !vma->vm_file->f_mapping - || !vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host) { + f = vma->vm_file; + + if (!f || !f->f_mapping || !f->f_mapping->host) { return -EINVAL; } @@ -221,11 +224,18 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma, offset = (loff_t)(start - vma->vm_start) + ((loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT); - /* filesystem's fallocate may need to take i_mutex */ + /* + * Filesystem's fallocate may need to take i_mutex. We need to + * explicitly grab a reference because the vma (and hence the + * vma's reference to the file) can go away as soon as we drop + * mmap_sem. + */ + get_file(f); up_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); - error = do_fallocate(vma->vm_file, + error = do_fallocate(f, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, offset, end - start); + fput(f); down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); return error; } |