linux-kernel - [PATCH 14/16] mm: switch gup_hugepte to use try_get_compound

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Message-Id: <20190611144102.8848-15-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:41:00 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 14/16] mm: switch gup_hugepte to use try_get_compound_head

This applies the overflow fixes from 8fde12ca79aff
("mm: prevent get_user_pages() from overflowing page refcount")
to the powerpc hugepd code and brings it back in sync with the
other GUP cases.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 mm/gup.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 494aa4c3a55e..0733674b539d 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2007,7 +2007,8 @@ static int gup_hugepte(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz, unsigned long addr,
 		refs++;
 	} while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
 
-	if (!page_cache_add_speculative(head, refs)) {
+	head = try_get_compound_head(head, refs);
+	if (!head) {
 		*nr -= refs;
 		return 0;
 	}
-- 
2.20.1