Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "16 patches

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (selftests, hugetlb,
  pagecache, mremap, kasan, and slub), kbuild, checkpatch, misc, and
  lib"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  mm: slub: call account_slab_page() after slab page initialization
  zlib: move EXPORT_SYMBOL() and MODULE_LICENSE() out of dfltcc_syms.c
  lib/zlib: fix inflating zlib streams on s390
  lib/genalloc: fix the overflow when size is too big
  kdev_t: always inline major/minor helper functions
  sizes.h: add SZ_8G/SZ_16G/SZ_32G macros
  local64.h: make <asm/local64.h> mandatory
  kasan: fix null pointer dereference in kasan_record_aux_stack
  mm: generalise COW SMC TLB flushing race comment
  mm/mremap.c: fix extent calculation
  mm: memmap defer init doesn't work as expected
  mm: add prototype for __add_to_page_cache_locked()
  checkpatch: prefer strscpy to strlcpy
  Revert "kbuild: avoid static_assert for genksyms"
  mm/hugetlb: fix deadlock in hugetlb_cow error path
  selftests/vm: fix building protection keys test

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 7d608765932b9..feff48e1465a6 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2892,11 +2892,13 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 		entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot);
 		entry = pte_sw_mkyoung(entry);
 		entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+
 		/*
 		 * Clear the pte entry and flush it first, before updating the
-		 * pte with the new entry. This will avoid a race condition
-		 * seen in the presence of one thread doing SMC and another
-		 * thread doing COW.
+		 * pte with the new entry, to keep TLBs on different CPUs in
+		 * sync. This code used to set the new PTE then flush TLBs, but
+		 * that left a window where the new PTE could be loaded into
+		 * some TLBs while the old PTE remains in others.
 		 */
 		ptep_clear_flush_notify(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
 		page_add_new_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, vmf->address, false);