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Commit 2214f707 authored by Anton Vorontsov's avatar Anton Vorontsov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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blackfin: a couple of task->mm handling fixes



The patch fixes two problems:

1. Working with task->mm w/o getting mm or grabing the task lock is
   dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm() assigns NULL under
   task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough).

   We can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep,
   so we have to take the task lock while handle its mm.

2. Checking for process->mm is not enough because process' main
   thread may exit or detach its mm via use_mm(), but other threads
   may still have a valid mm.

   To catch this we use find_lock_task_mm(), which walks up all
   threads and returns an appropriate task (with task lock held).

Suggested-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1198c8b9
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