The fact that mlock calls get_user_pages, and get_user_pages might call mlock when expanding a stack looks like a potential recursion.
However, mlock makes sure the requested range is already contained within a vma, so no stack expansion will actually happen from mlock. Should this ever change: the stack expansion mlocks only the newly expanded range and so will not result in recursive expansion. Reported-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> --- mm/mlock.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c index b1647fb..78c4924 100644 --- a/mm/mlock.c +++ b/mm/mlock.c @@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ long __mlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC)) gup_flags |= FOLL_FORCE; + /* + * We made sure addr is within a VMA, so the following will + * not result in a stack expansion that recurses back here. + */ return __get_user_pages(current, mm, addr, nr_pages, gup_flags, NULL, NULL, nonblocking); } -- 1.7.11.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/