From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:45:51 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: mm: find_get_pages_contig fixlet
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9cbb4cb21b19fff46cf1174d0ed699ef710e641c;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal7580.git

mm: find_get_pages_contig fixlet

Testing ->mapping and ->index without a ref is not stable as the page
may have been reused at this point.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index ca389394fa2..1a3dd591472 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -837,9 +837,6 @@ repeat:
 		if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page))
 			goto restart;
 
-		if (page->mapping == NULL || page->index != index)
-			break;
-
 		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
 			goto repeat;
 
@@ -849,6 +846,16 @@ repeat:
 			goto repeat;
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * must check mapping and index after taking the ref.
+		 * otherwise we can get both false positives and false
+		 * negatives, which is just confusing to the caller.
+		 */
+		if (page->mapping == NULL || page->index != index) {
+			page_cache_release(page);
+			break;
+		}
+
 		pages[ret] = page;
 		ret++;
 		index++;