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Hugh Dickins
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Although mmap_region() and mlock_fixup() take care that VM_LOCKED is never left set on a VM_SPECIAL vma, there is an interval while file->f_op->mmap() is using vm_insert_page(s), when VM_LOCKED may still be set while VM_SPECIAL bits are added: so mlock_vma_page() should ignore VM_LOCKED while any VM_SPECIAL bits are set. This showed up as a "Bad page" still mlocked, when vfree()ing pages which had been vm_inserted by remap_vmalloc_range_partial(): while release_pages() and __page_cache_release(), and so put_page(), catch pages still mlocked when freeing (and clear_page_mlock() caught them when unmapping), the vfree() path is unprepared for them: fix it? but these pages should not have been mlocked in the first place. I assume that an mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) had been done in the past; or maybe the user got to specify MAP_LOCKED on a vmalloc'ing driver mmap. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
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