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authorPeter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>2014-10-13 15:55:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-14 02:18:28 +0200
commit64e455079e1bd7787cc47be30b7f601ce682a5f6 (patch)
tree05193bd91be3ffc0d33ddd3ffb654ef4c23778f9 /mm/mprotect.c
parent63a12d9d01831208a47f5c0fbbf93f503d1fb162 (diff)
downloadlinux-64e455079e1bd7787cc47be30b7f601ce682a5f6.tar.bz2
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 'mm/mprotect.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mprotect.c20
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index c43d557941f8..ace93454ce8e 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -29,13 +29,6 @@
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
-#ifndef pgprot_modify
-static inline pgprot_t pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, pgprot_t newprot)
-{
- return newprot;
-}
-#endif
-
/*
* For a prot_numa update we only hold mmap_sem for read so there is a
* potential race with faulting where a pmd was temporarily none. This
@@ -93,7 +86,9 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
* Avoid taking write faults for pages we
* know to be dirty.
*/
- if (dirty_accountable && pte_dirty(ptent))
+ if (dirty_accountable && pte_dirty(ptent) &&
+ (pte_soft_dirty(ptent) ||
+ !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY)))
ptent = pte_mkwrite(ptent);
ptep_modify_prot_commit(mm, addr, pte, ptent);
updated = true;
@@ -320,13 +315,8 @@ success:
* held in write mode.
*/
vma->vm_flags = newflags;
- vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot,
- vm_get_page_prot(newflags));
-
- if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma)) {
- vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(newflags & ~VM_SHARED);
- dirty_accountable = 1;
- }
+ dirty_accountable = vma_wants_writenotify(vma);
+ vma_set_page_prot(vma);
change_protection(vma, start, end, vma->vm_page_prot,
dirty_accountable, 0);