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>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 93d28c7e5420..7f855206e7fb 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -89,6 +89,25 @@ pgprot_t vm_get_page_prot(unsigned long vm_flags)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_get_page_prot);
 
+static pgprot_t vm_pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, unsigned long vm_flags)
+{
+	return pgprot_modify(oldprot, vm_get_page_prot(vm_flags));
+}
+
+/* Update vma->vm_page_prot to reflect vma->vm_flags. */
+void vma_set_page_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
+
+	vma->vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_flags);
+	if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma)) {
+		vm_flags &= ~VM_SHARED;
+		vma->vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot,
+						     vm_flags);
+	}
+}
+
+
 int sysctl_overcommit_memory __read_mostly = OVERCOMMIT_GUESS;  /* heuristic overcommit */
 int sysctl_overcommit_ratio __read_mostly = 50;	/* default is 50% */
 unsigned long sysctl_overcommit_kbytes __read_mostly;
@@ -1475,11 +1494,16 @@ int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite)
 		return 1;
 
-	/* The open routine did something to the protections already? */
+	/* The open routine did something to the protections that pgprot_modify
+	 * won't preserve? */
 	if (pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) !=
-	    pgprot_val(vm_get_page_prot(vm_flags)))
+	    pgprot_val(vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_flags)))
 		return 0;
 
+	/* Do we need to track softdirty? */
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY) && !(vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY))
+		return 1;
+
 	/* Specialty mapping? */
 	if (vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)
 		return 0;
@@ -1615,21 +1639,6 @@ munmap_back:
 			goto free_vma;
 	}
 
-	if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma)) {
-		pgprot_t pprot = vma->vm_page_prot;
-
-		/* Can vma->vm_page_prot have changed??
-		 *
-		 * Answer: Yes, drivers may have changed it in their
-		 *         f_op->mmap method.
-		 *
-		 * Ensures that vmas marked as uncached stay that way.
-		 */
-		vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vm_flags & ~VM_SHARED);
-		if (pgprot_val(pprot) == pgprot_val(pgprot_noncached(pprot)))
-			vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
-	}
-
 	vma_link(mm, vma, prev, rb_link, rb_parent);
 	/* Once vma denies write, undo our temporary denial count */
 	if (file) {
@@ -1663,6 +1672,8 @@ out:
 	 */
 	vma->vm_flags |= VM_SOFTDIRTY;
 
+	vma_set_page_prot(vma);
+
 	return addr;
 
 unmap_and_free_vma: