BUG? race between kswapd and ptrace (access_process_vm )

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Is kswapd now running without lock_kernel()?

Then there is a race between swapout and ptrace:
access_process_vm() accesses the page table entries, only protected with
the mmap_sem semaphore and lock_kernel().

Isn't

    spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);

missing in access_one_page() [in linux/kernel/ptrace.c]?

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    Manfred
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