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Hugh Dickins 1ae7000630 [PATCH] holepunch: fix shmem_truncate_range punch locking 
Miklos Szeredi observes that during truncation of shmem page directories,
info->lock is released to improve latency (after lowering i_size and
next_index to exclude races); but this is quite wrong for holepunching, which
receives no such protection from i_size or next_index, and is left vulnerable
to races with shmem_unuse, shmem_getpage and shmem_writepage.

Hold info->lock throughout when holepunching?  No, any user could prevent
rescheduling for far too long.  Instead take info->lock just when needed: in
shmem_free_swp when removing the swap entries, and whenever removing a
directory page from the level above.  But so long as we remove before
scanning, we can safely skip taking the lock at the lower levels, except at
misaligned start and end of the hole.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2007-03-29 08:22:25 -07:00
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Kconfig [PATCH] Set CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for arches with GENERIC_ISA_DMA 2007-02-11 10:51:19 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] separate bdi congestion functions from queue congestion functions 2006-10-20 10:26:35 -07:00
allocpercpu.c [PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_free 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
backing-dev.c [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control 2007-03-16 19:25:05 -07:00
bootmem.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
bounce.c block: blk_max_pfn is somtimes wrong 2007-03-27 08:52:47 +02:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] mm: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_path 2006-12-08 08:28:43 -08:00
filemap.c [PATCH] dio: invalidate clean pages before dio write 2007-03-16 19:25:04 -07:00
filemap.h Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] mm: mremap correct rmap accounting 2007-01-30 08:33:32 -08:00
fremap.c [PATCH] mm: more rmap debugging 2006-12-22 08:55:49 -08:00
highmem.c [PATCH] Use ZVC for free_pages 2007-02-11 10:51:17 -08:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] hugetlb: preserve hugetlb pte dirty state 2007-02-09 09:25:46 -08:00
internal.h [PATCH] mm: VM_BUG_ON 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
madvise.c [PATCH] mm: fix madvise infinine loop 2007-03-16 19:25:04 -07:00
memory.c [PATCH] Add NOPFN_REFAULT result from vm_ops->nopfn() 2007-02-12 09:48:27 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell 2007-01-11 18:18:20 -08:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] Page migration: Fix vma flag checking 2007-03-05 07:57:51 -08:00
mempool.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
migrate.c [PATCH] Page migration: Fix vma flag checking 2007-03-05 07:57:51 -08:00
mincore.c [PATCH] mincore: vma crossing fix 2007-02-15 09:57:03 -08:00
mlock.c [PATCH] mlock cleanup 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
mmap.c [PATCH] Bug in MM_RB debugging 2007-03-01 14:53:38 -08:00
mmzone.c [PATCH] remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL'ed symbols 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] paravirt: lazy mmu mode hooks.patch 2006-10-01 00:39:33 -07:00
mremap.c [PATCH] mm: mremap correct rmap accounting 2007-01-30 08:33:32 -08:00
msync.c [PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup 2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
nommu.c [PATCH] NOMMU: make SYSV SHM nattch work correctly 2007-03-22 19:39:06 -07:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] oom fix: prevent oom from killing a process with children/sibling unkillable 2007-03-16 19:25:06 -07:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations 2007-03-01 14:53:38 -08:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] Rename PG_checked to PG_owner_priv_1 2007-03-01 14:53:37 -08:00
page_io.c [PATCH] swsusp: use block device offsets to identify swap locations 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h 2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c [PATCH] Drop __get_zone_counts() 2007-02-11 10:51:18 -08:00
rmap.c [PATCH] adapt page_lock_anon_vma() to PREEMPT_RCU 2007-03-01 14:53:39 -08:00
shmem.c [PATCH] holepunch: fix shmem_truncate_range punch locking 2007-03-29 08:22:25 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.c 2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
slab.c [PATCH] kernel-doc fixes for 2.6.20-git15 (non-drivers) 2007-03-01 14:53:37 -08:00
slob.c [PATCH] MM: SLOB is broken by recent cleanup of slab.h 2006-12-30 10:56:42 -08:00
sparse.c [PATCH] numa node ids are int, page_to_nid and zone_to_nid should return int 2006-12-07 08:39:23 -08:00
swap.c [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use 2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement 2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] swsusp: Do not fail if resume device is not set 2007-01-05 23:55:22 -08:00
thrash.c [PATCH] make mm/thrash.c:global_faults static 2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] mm/{,tiny-}shmem.c cleanups 2007-03-01 14:53:35 -08:00
truncate.c [PATCH] VM: invalidate_inode_pages2_range() should not exit early 2007-03-01 14:53:39 -08:00
util.c [PATCH] slab: clean up leak tracking ifdefs a little bit 2006-10-04 07:55:13 -07:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations 2007-03-01 14:53:38 -08:00
vmstat.c [PATCH] optional ZONE_DMA: optional ZONE_DMA in the VM 2007-02-11 10:51:18 -08:00