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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-05 12:29:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-05 13:07:56 -0700 |
| commit | 20cbc972617069c1ed434f62151e4de57d26ea46 (patch) | |
| tree | 067d4d64badaa772a8c132c03f4e42875e35e3c4 /fs | |
| parent | fbe0825752dc34b505777fd59cde4a6ce832eb16 (diff) | |
Fix clear_refs_write() use of struct mm_walk
Don't use a static entry, so as to prevent races during concurrent use
of this function.
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c index ab8ccc9d14ff..05053d701ac5 100644 --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -476,10 +476,10 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, return -ESRCH; mm = get_task_mm(task); if (mm) { - static struct mm_walk clear_refs_walk; - memset(&clear_refs_walk, 0, sizeof(clear_refs_walk)); - clear_refs_walk.pmd_entry = clear_refs_pte_range; - clear_refs_walk.mm = mm; + struct mm_walk clear_refs_walk = { + .pmd_entry = clear_refs_pte_range, + .mm = mm, + }; down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) { clear_refs_walk.private = vma; |