rmap: remove anon_vma check in page_address_in_vma()
authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Tue, 11 May 2010 21:06:55 +0000 (14:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 12 May 2010 00:33:42 +0000 (17:33 -0700)
Currently page_address_in_vma() compares vma->anon_vma and
page_anon_vma(page) for parameter check, but in 2.6.34 a vma can have
multiple anon_vmas with anon_vma_chain, so current check does not work.
(For anonymous page shared by multiple processes, some verified (page,vma)
pairs return -EFAULT wrongly.)

We can go to checking all anon_vmas in the "same_vma" chain, but it needs
to meet lock requirement.  Instead, we can remove anon_vma check safely
because page_address_in_vma() assumes that page and vma are already
checked to belong to the identical process.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/rmap.c

index 07fc94758799b778e39ac8796216e84d8c2548e0..0feeef860a8f5b5d61081234f40e8e149e2696f5 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -336,14 +336,13 @@ vma_address(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 
 /*
  * At what user virtual address is page expected in vma?
- * checking that the page matches the vma.
+ * Caller should check the page is actually part of the vma.
  */
 unsigned long page_address_in_vma(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
-       if (PageAnon(page)) {
-               if (vma->anon_vma != page_anon_vma(page))
-                       return -EFAULT;
-       } else if (page->mapping && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR)) {
+       if (PageAnon(page))
+               ;
+       else if (page->mapping && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR)) {
                if (!vma->vm_file ||
                    vma->vm_file->f_mapping != page->mapping)
                        return -EFAULT;