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diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 6657000b18d4..08c56aaf72eb 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@
* hugetlb_fault_mutex (hugetlbfs specific page fault mutex)
* anon_vma->rwsem
* mm->page_table_lock or pte_lock
- * pgdat->lru_lock (in mark_page_accessed, isolate_lru_page)
* swap_lock (in swap_duplicate, swap_info_get)
* mmlist_lock (in mmput, drain_mmlist and others)
* mapping->private_lock (in __set_page_dirty_buffers)
- * mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_page_stat (memcg->move_lock)
+ * lock_page_memcg move_lock (in __set_page_dirty_buffers)
* i_pages lock (widely used)
+ * lruvec->lru_lock (in lock_page_lruvec_irq)
* inode->i_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty)
* bdi.wb->list_lock (in set_page_dirty's __mark_inode_dirty)
* sb_lock (within inode_lock in fs/fs-writeback.c)
@@ -1054,8 +1054,14 @@ static void __page_set_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
if (!exclusive)
anon_vma = anon_vma->root;
+ /*
+ * page_idle does a lockless/optimistic rmap scan on page->mapping.
+ * Make sure the compiler doesn't split the stores of anon_vma and
+ * the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON type identifier, otherwise the rmap code
+ * could mistake the mapping for a struct address_space and crash.
+ */
anon_vma = (void *) anon_vma + PAGE_MAPPING_ANON;
- page->mapping = (struct address_space *) anon_vma;
+ WRITE_ONCE(page->mapping, (struct address_space *) anon_vma);
page->index = linear_page_index(vma, address);
}