Hello,
since test11, the merge_segments() routine assumes that every
VMA that it frees has been locked with lock_vma_mappings().
While most callers have been adapted to perform this locking,
at least two, do_mlock and sys_mprotect, do *not* currently.
This causes a deadlock in certain situations.
What's the correct way to fix this? In mlock and mprotect,
potentially many segments could be freed; do we need to
call lock_vma_mappings on all of them before calling
merge_segments?
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards
Ulrich Weigand
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