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[PATCH 5.15 876/917] mm/filemap.c: remove bogus VM_BUG_ON

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-11-16 00:38:20
Also in: lkml

From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

commit d417b49fff3e2f21043c834841e8623a6098741d upstream.

It is not safe to check page->index without holding the page lock.  It
can be changed if the page is moved between the swap cache and the page
cache for a shmem file, for example.  There is a VM_BUG_ON below which
checks page->index is correct after taking the page lock.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818144932.940640-1-willy@infradead.org
Fixes: 5c211ba29deb ("mm: add and use find_lock_entries")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reported-by: <redacted>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/filemap.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2093,7 +2093,6 @@ unsigned find_lock_entries(struct addres
 		if (!xa_is_value(page)) {
 			if (page->index < start)
 				goto put;
-			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page->index != xas.xa_index, page);
 			if (page->index + thp_nr_pages(page) - 1 > end)
 				goto put;
 			if (!trylock_page(page))

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