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Subject[PATCH] Add missing spin_lock() to hugetlb_cow()
Add missing spin_lock() of the page_table_lock before an error return in
hugetlb_cow(). Callers of hugtelb_cow() expect it to be held upon return.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org

---

Sorry for the noise, if there has already been a patch posted to fix this
issue. I didn't see one.

mm/hugetlb.c | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index c032738..8ee804b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2380,8 +2380,11 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
* When the original hugepage is shared one, it does not have
* anon_vma prepared.
*/
- if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
+ if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) {
+ /* Caller expects lock to be held */
+ spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+ }

copy_huge_page(new_page, old_page, address, vma);
__SetPageUptodate(new_page);

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