From 64e455079e1bd7787cc47be30b7f601ce682a5f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Feiner Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:55:46 -0700 Subject: 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 Reported-by: Peter Feiner Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Jamie Liu Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memory.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/memory.c') diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index e229970e4223..1cc6bfbd872e 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -2053,7 +2053,8 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, old_page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, orig_pte); if (!old_page) { /* - * VM_MIXEDMAP !pfn_valid() case + * VM_MIXEDMAP !pfn_valid() case, or VM_SOFTDIRTY clear on a + * VM_PFNMAP VMA. * * We should not cow pages in a shared writeable mapping. * Just mark the pages writable as we can't do any dirty -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522