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-rw-r--r--mm/ksm.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 15dd7415f7b3..6cb60f46cce5 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1990,6 +1990,7 @@ static void stable_tree_append(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
*/
static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
struct rmap_item *tree_rmap_item;
struct page *tree_page = NULL;
struct stable_node *stable_node;
@@ -2062,9 +2063,11 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
if (ksm_use_zero_pages && (checksum == zero_checksum)) {
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
- vma = find_mergeable_vma(rmap_item->mm, rmap_item->address);
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
/*
* In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we
* need to continue. Otherwise we're done.