diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index ea87f4d2f455c8c99164cb555287ad1c9fb165e3..1614be20173dcb19ef45e65fa25d07f8d3c65194 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -314,17 +314,29 @@ get_futex_key(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared, union futex_key *key, int rw) #endif lock_page(page_head); + + /* + * If page_head->mapping is NULL, then it cannot be a PageAnon + * page; but it might be the ZERO_PAGE or in the gate area or + * in a special mapping (all cases which we are happy to fail); + * or it may have been a good file page when get_user_pages_fast + * found it, but truncated or holepunched or subjected to + * invalidate_complete_page2 before we got the page lock (also + * cases which we are happy to fail). And we hold a reference, + * so refcount care in invalidate_complete_page's remove_mapping + * prevents drop_caches from setting mapping to NULL beneath us. + * + * The case we do have to guard against is when memory pressure made + * shmem_writepage move it from filecache to swapcache beneath us: + * an unlikely race, but we do need to retry for page_head->mapping. + */ if (!page_head->mapping) { + int shmem_swizzled = PageSwapCache(page_head); unlock_page(page_head); put_page(page_head); - /* - * ZERO_PAGE pages don't have a mapping. Avoid a busy loop - * trying to find one. RW mapping would have COW'd (and thus - * have a mapping) so this page is RO and won't ever change. - */ - if ((page_head == ZERO_PAGE(address))) - return -EFAULT; - goto again; + if (shmem_swizzled) + goto again; + return -EFAULT; } /*