00mm1 remove read hazard from cow.patch
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PATCH 1/9 00mm1 remove read hazard from cow.patch
We don't want to read PTEs directly like this after they have been modified, as a lazy MMU implementation of direct page tables may not have written the updated PTE back to memory yet.
Signed-off-by Zachary Amsden <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
--- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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mm/memory.c +1 -1
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, s*/ if (is_cow_mapping (vm_flags)) {ptep_set_wrprotect (src_mm, addr, src_pte); - pte = *src_pte; + pte =pte_wrprotect (pte); }/*
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