kernel-ark/fs/proc
Hugh Dickins 705e87c0c3 [PATCH] mm: pte_offset_map_lock loops
Convert those common loops using page_table_lock on the outside and
pte_offset_map within to use just pte_offset_map_lock within instead.

These all hold mmap_sem (some exclusively, some not), so at no level can a
page table be whipped away from beneath them.  But whereas pte_alloc loops
tested with the "atomic" pmd_present, these loops are testing with pmd_none,
which on i386 PAE tests both lower and upper halves.

That's now unsafe, so add a cast into pmd_none to test only the vital lower
half: we lose a little sensitivity to a corrupt middle directory, but not
enough to worry about.  It appears that i386 and UML were the only
architectures vulnerable in this way, and pgd and pud no problem.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
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array.c
base.c
generic.c
inode-alloc.txt
inode.c
internal.h
kcore.c
kmsg.c
Makefile
mmu.c
nommu.c
proc_devtree.c
proc_misc.c
proc_tty.c
root.c
task_mmu.c [PATCH] mm: pte_offset_map_lock loops 2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
task_nommu.c
vmcore.c