On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 02:53:47PM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> I think the minimal fix would actually be:
>
> if (vma->anon_vma && (importer || start != vma->vm_start)) {
> anon_vma = vma->anon_vma;
> + else if (next->anon_vma && adjust_next)
> + anon_vma = next->anon_vma;
Right indeed. The last change required to the above is to check
adjust_next first.
> I suppose if we were to consider adding this fix to the stable series,
> we should probably do it in such a minimal way. I hadn't actually
> considered it, because I was only thinking about this patch series,
> and at patch 4/7 it becomes necessary to lock the anon_vma even if
> only the vm_end side gets modified (so we'd still end up with what I
> proposed in the end)
Ah, that fully explains you removed the optimization :). I was
reviewing the patch as a bugfix for upstream without noticing the
new requirements introduced by the later patches.
I would suggest to do the strict fix as above in as patch 1/8 and push
it in -mm, and to do only the optimization removal in 3/8. I think
we want it in -stable too later, so it'll make life easier to
cherry-pick the commit if it's merged independently.
Thanks!
Andrea
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