[PATCH] page_mkwrite caller race fix
After do_wp_page has tested page_mkwrite, it must release old_page after acquiring page table lock, not before: at some stage that ordering got reversed, leaving a (very unlikely) window in which old_page might be truncated, freed, and reused in the same position. Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: NNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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