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Commit 5dbe0af4 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: fix kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1017!

I've hit the "address >= vma->vm_end" check in do_page_add_anon_rmap()
just once.  The stack showed khugepaged allocation trying to compact
pages: the call to page_add_anon_rmap() coming from remove_migration_pte().

That path holds anon_vma lock, but does not hold mmap_sem: it can
therefore race with a split_vma(), and in commit 5f70b962

 "mmap:
avoid unnecessary anon_vma lock" we just took away the anon_vma lock
protection when adjusting vma->vm_end.

I don't think that particular BUG_ON ever caught anything interesting,
so better replace it by a comment, than reinstate the anon_vma locking.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 826267cf
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