[BUGFIX] kvm, Fix a race condition for usage of is_hwpoison_address

Commit Message

Huang, Ying June 22, 2010, 6:23 a.m. UTC

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Patch

--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1298,6 +1298,9 @@  done:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * The caller must hold current->mm->mmap_sem in read mode.
+ */
 int is_hwpoison_address(unsigned long addr)
 {
 	pgd_t *pgdp;
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -955,12 +955,13 @@  static pfn_t hva_to_pfn(struct kvm *kvm,
 	if (unlikely(npages != 1)) {
 		struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 
+		down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 		if (is_hwpoison_address(addr)) {
+			up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 			get_page(hwpoison_page);
 			return page_to_pfn(hwpoison_page);
 		}
 
-		down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 		vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr);
 
 		if (vma == NULL || addr < vma->vm_start ||