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| author | Peter Feiner | 2014-10-13 15:55:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2014-10-14 02:18:28 +0200 |
| commit | 64e455079e1bd7787cc47be30b7f601ce682a5f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 05193bd91be3ffc0d33ddd3ffb654ef4c23778f9 /include/linux/mm.h | |
| parent | 63a12d9d01831208a47f5c0fbbf93f503d1fb162 (diff) | |
mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared
For VMAs that don't want write notifications, PTEs created for read faults
have their write bit set. If the read fault happens after VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared, then the PTE's softdirty bit will remain clear after subsequent
writes.
Here's a simple code snippet to demonstrate the bug:
char* m = mmap(NULL, getpagesize(), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
system("echo 4 > /proc/$PPID/clear_refs"); /* clear VM_SOFTDIRTY */
assert(*m == '\0'); /* new PTE allows write access */
assert(!soft_dirty(x));
*m = 'x'; /* should dirty the page */
assert(soft_dirty(x)); /* fails */
With this patch, write notifications are enabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared. Furthermore, to avoid unnecessary faults, write notifications
are disabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is set.
As a side effect of enabling and disabling write notifications with
care, this patch fixes a bug in mprotect where vm_page_prot bits set by
drivers were zapped on mprotect. An analogous bug was fixed in mmap by
commit c9d0bf241451 ("mm: uncached vma support with writenotify").
Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Reported-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Jamie Liu <jamieliu@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 4cd45cb95e6d..02d11ee7f19d 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1974,11 +1974,16 @@ static inline struct vm_area_struct *find_exact_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, #ifdef CONFIG_MMU pgprot_t vm_get_page_prot(unsigned long vm_flags); +void vma_set_page_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma); #else static inline pgprot_t vm_get_page_prot(unsigned long vm_flags) { return __pgprot(0); } +static inline void vma_set_page_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma) +{ + vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags); +} #endif #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING |