do_wp_page: fix regression with execute in place
authorCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:12:16 +0000 (15:12 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:56:48 +0000 (12:56 -0800)
Fix do_wp_page for VM_MIXEDMAP mappings.

In the case where pfn_valid returns 0 for a pfn at the beginning of
do_wp_page and the mapping is not shared writable, the code branches to
label `gotten:' with old_page == NULL.

In case the vma is locked (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED), lock_page,
clear_page_mlock, and unlock_page try to access the old_page.

This patch checks whether old_page is valid before it is dereferenced.

The regression was introduced by "mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable"
(commit b291f000393f5a0b679012b39d79fbc85c018233).

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory.c

index 22bfa7a47a0b613cf9c39ee6e7d24f7dc3c9cf77..baa999e87cd21d2f9e67c8e3b1093bb6831513fb 100644 (file)
@@ -1999,7 +1999,7 @@ gotten:
         * Don't let another task, with possibly unlocked vma,
         * keep the mlocked page.
         */
-       if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {
+       if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) && old_page) {
                lock_page(old_page);    /* for LRU manipulation */
                clear_page_mlock(old_page);
                unlock_page(old_page);