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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2012-01-13 19:00:22 +0400
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2012-01-13 19:00:22 +0400
commit4de3a8e101150feaefa1139611a50ff37467f33e (patch)
treedaada742542518b02d7db7c5d32e715eaa5f166d /mm/mremap.c
parent294064f58953f9964e5945424b09c51800330a83 (diff)
parent099469502f62fbe0d7e4f0b83a2f22538367f734 (diff)
downloadlinux-4de3a8e101150feaefa1139611a50ff37467f33e.tar.xz
Merge branch 'master' into fixes
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diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index d6959cb4df58..87bb8393e7d2 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -221,6 +221,15 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
moved_len = move_page_tables(vma, old_addr, new_vma, new_addr, old_len);
if (moved_len < old_len) {
/*
+ * Before moving the page tables from the new vma to
+ * the old vma, we need to be sure the old vma is
+ * queued after new vma in the same_anon_vma list to
+ * prevent SMP races with rmap_walk (that could lead
+ * rmap_walk to miss some page table).
+ */
+ anon_vma_moveto_tail(vma);
+
+ /*
* On error, move entries back from new area to old,
* which will succeed since page tables still there,
* and then proceed to unmap new area instead of old.