Re: [PATCH RFC 4/5] mm/ksm, proc: introduce remote merge

From: Aaron Tomlin
Date: Thu May 16 2019 - 12:31:52 EST


On Thu 2019-05-16 12:00 +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 11:43 AM Oleksandr Natalenko
> <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[ ... ]
> > + }
> > +
> > + down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
>
> Should a check for mmget_still_valid(mm) be inserted here? See commit
> 04f5866e41fb70690e28397487d8bd8eea7d712a.

Yes - I'd say this is required here.

Thanks,

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Aaron Tomlin