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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2015-03-12 23:25:54 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-03-13 01:46:07 (GMT)
commit44fc80573cc760a7154f41fd0a958ee10eba1a81 (patch)
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parente009d5dc0a94a7133e5f1c083732d760bfd038e6 (diff)
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mm, hugetlb: close race when setting PageTail for gigantic pages
Now that gigantic pages are dynamically allocatable, care must be taken to ensure that p->first_page is valid before setting PageTail. If this isn't done, then it is possible to race and have compound_head() return NULL. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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