From f729c8c9b24f0540a6e6b86e68f3888ba90ef7e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ross Zwisler Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:57:24 -0800 Subject: dax: wrprotect pmd_t in dax_mapping_entry_mkclean Currently dax_mapping_entry_mkclean() fails to clean and write protect the pmd_t of a DAX PMD entry during an *sync operation. This can result in data loss in the following sequence: 1) mmap write to DAX PMD, dirtying PMD radix tree entry and making the pmd_t dirty and writeable 2) fsync, flushing out PMD data and cleaning the radix tree entry. We currently fail to mark the pmd_t as clean and write protected. 3) more mmap writes to the PMD. These don't cause any page faults since the pmd_t is dirty and writeable. The radix tree entry remains clean. 4) fsync, which fails to flush the dirty PMD data because the radix tree entry was clean. 5) crash - dirty data that should have been fsync'd as part of 4) could still have been in the processor cache, and is lost. Fix this by marking the pmd_t clean and write protected in dax_mapping_entry_mkclean(), which is called as part of the fsync operation 2). This will cause the writes in step 3) above to generate page faults where we'll re-dirty the PMD radix tree entry, resulting in flushes in the fsync that happens in step 4). Fixes: 4b4bb46d00b3 ("dax: clear dirty entry tags on cache flush") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482272586-21177-3-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memory.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/memory.c') diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index b62f3bc63481..6bf2b471e30c 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3819,8 +3819,8 @@ out: return -EINVAL; } -int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, pte_t **ptepp, - spinlock_t **ptlp) +static inline int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, + pte_t **ptepp, spinlock_t **ptlp) { int res; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522