Jeremy Fitzhardinge 617d34d9e5 x86, mm: Hold mm->page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync ... Take mm->page_table_lock while syncing the vmalloc region. This prevents a race with the Xen pagetable pin/unpin code, which expects that the page_table_lock is already held. If this race occurs, then Xen can see an inconsistent page type (a page can either be read/write or a pagetable page, and pin/unpin converts it between them), which will cause either the pin or the set_p[gm]d to fail; either will crash the kernel. vmalloc_sync_all() should be called rarely, so this extra use of page_table_lock should not interfere with its normal users. The mm pointer is stashed in the pgd page's index field, as that won't be otherwise used for pgds. Reported-by: Ian Campbell <ian.cambell@eu.citrix.com> Originally-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <4CB88A4C.1080305@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>		2010-10-19 13:57:08 -07:00
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asm	x86, mm: Hold mm->page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync	2010-10-19 13:57:08 -07:00