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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/fault.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 1dbade870f90..a24194681513 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -1218,7 +1218,8 @@ good_area:
/*
* If for any reason at all we couldn't handle the fault,
* make sure we exit gracefully rather than endlessly redo
- * the fault:
+ * the fault. Since we never set FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT, if
+ * we get VM_FAULT_RETRY back, the mmap_sem has been unlocked.
*/
fault = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, flags);