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author | Gary S. Robertson <gary.robertson@linaro.org> | 2014-05-06 01:11:53 -0500 |
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committer | Gary S. Robertson <gary.robertson@linaro.org> | 2014-05-06 01:11:53 -0500 |
commit | e8f84c44a0d78cb3413d69331bee6ce4d86b2e1d (patch) | |
tree | 0eb14b7e337b7b8dbc1bd97e11a13e1abc114b9a /include/linux/mm.h | |
parent | e365c882ed38dbbe1a6ff4ed72414835390368a6 (diff) | |
parent | f512eefd5cde0ad21bd99bbfe4dc70b62805838e (diff) |
Merge tag 'v3.10.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable into linux-lnglinux-lng-v3.10.37-finallinux-lng-v3.10.xlinux-lng
This is the 3.10.37 stable release
Conflicts:
scripts/package/builddeb
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 3bf21c3502d0..a9a48309f045 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -361,8 +361,18 @@ static inline void compound_unlock_irqrestore(struct page *page, static inline struct page *compound_head(struct page *page) { - if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) - return page->first_page; + if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) { + struct page *head = page->first_page; + + /* + * page->first_page may be a dangling pointer to an old + * compound page, so recheck that it is still a tail + * page before returning. + */ + smp_rmb(); + if (likely(PageTail(page))) + return head; + } return page; } |