[PATCH] mm: remove_mapping() safeness
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:31:23 +0000 (23:31 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:48:48 +0000 (08:48 -0700)
Some users of remove_mapping had been unsafe.

Modify the remove_mapping precondition to ensure the caller has locked the
page and obtained the correct mapping.  Modify callers to ensure the
mapping is the correct one.

[hugh@veritas.com: swapper_space fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mm/vmscan.c

index 41a3da3d6ccce37437131c8f717ec15aebbb0dbe..16180587fd7d3804f8a61b4f6586d477c3651617 100644 (file)
@@ -377,8 +377,8 @@ static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
 
 int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
 {
-       if (!mapping)
-               return 0;               /* truncate got there first */
+       BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+       BUG_ON(mapping != page_mapping(page));
 
        write_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
 
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list,
                                goto free_it;
                }
 
-               if (!remove_mapping(mapping, page))
+               if (!mapping || !remove_mapping(mapping, page))
                        goto keep_locked;
 
 free_it: