Re: [PATCH] fix missing unlock_page in mm/rmap.c

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:53:04PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Please apply.
> A required unlock_page will be missed in a very rare (but possible) race
> condition. Acked by Hugh, who says:
> 	It'll be hard to hit because of the additional page_mapped test above,
> 	with truncate unmapping ptes from mms before it advances to removing
> 	pages from cache; but nothing to prevent it happening.
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I've hit a missing unlock_page(). I'll see if this fixed it.


-- wli
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