Re: [PATCH -v2] rmap: make anon_vma_prepare link in all the anon_vmas of a mergeable VMA

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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Friday, April 9, 2010 - 10:50 am

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Borislav Petkov wrote:

Continue stress-testing it. I don't think my patch on its own should fix 
the original problem, but at least we now know why you got those NULL 
anon_vma's.

So what I _think_ will happen is that you'll be able to re-create the 
problem that started this all.  But I'd like to verify that, just because 
I'm anal and I'd like these things to be tested independently.

So assuming that the original problem happens again, if you can then apply 
Rik's patch, but add a

	dst->anon_vma = src->anon_vma;

to just before the success case (the "return 0") in anon_vma_clone(), 
that would be good.

			Linus
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[PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Rik van Riel, (Sun Apr 4, 4:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Minchan Kim, (Sun Apr 4, 4:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 5, 8:37 am)
Re: [PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Minchan Kim, (Mon Apr 5, 8:48 am)
Re: [PATCH] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Rik van Riel, (Mon Apr 5, 9:04 am)
[PATCH -v2] rmap: fix anon_vma_fork() memory leak, Rik van Riel, (Mon Apr 5, 9:13 am)
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Re: [PATCH -v2] rmap: make anon_vma_prepare link in all th ..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Apr 9, 10:50 am)
[PATCH 1/3] mm: make page freeing path RCU-safe, Borislav Petkov, (Sun Apr 11, 6:19 am)
[PATCH 2/3] mm: cleanup find_mergeable_anon_vma complexity, Borislav Petkov, (Sun Apr 11, 6:19 am)
[PATCH 3/3] mm: fixup vma_adjust, Borislav Petkov, (Sun Apr 11, 6:19 am)
[PATCH 2/3] mm: cleanup find_mergeable_anon_vma complexity, Borislav Petkov, (Sun Apr 11, 6:25 am)
[PATCH 2/4] vma_adjust: fix the copying of anon_vma chains, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Apr 12, 1:23 pm)