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-rw-r--r--mm/memory-failure.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index b62287db87af..dc47415a5511 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -687,6 +687,8 @@ static int hwpoison_user_mappings(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn,
/*
* Propagate the dirty bit from PTEs to struct page first, because we
* need this to decide if we should kill or just drop the page.
+ * XXX: the dirty test could be racy: set_page_dirty() may not always
+ * be called inside page lock (it's recommended but not enforced).
*/
mapping = page_mapping(p);
if (!PageDirty(p) && mapping && mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping)) {
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