From 6d2329f8872f23e46a19d240930571510ce525eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 17:01:22 -0700 Subject: mm: vm_page_prot: update with WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE vma->vm_page_prot is read lockless from the rmap_walk, it may be updated concurrently and this prevents the risk of reading intermediate values. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474660305-19222-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Jan Vorlicek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/huge_memory.c') diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 12b9f1a39b63..cdcd25cb30fe 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1620,7 +1620,7 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, if (soft_dirty) entry = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(entry); } else { - entry = mk_pte(page + i, vma->vm_page_prot); + entry = mk_pte(page + i, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot)); entry = maybe_mkwrite(entry, vma); if (!write) entry = pte_wrprotect(entry); -- cgit v1.2.1