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authorAaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>2016-11-29 13:27:31 +0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-11-29 08:20:24 -0800
commita2ce2666aa3509ac31fac0f540a3502372b7b630 (patch)
tree10b193706622c09b1b23c540359de7d75557a5a7 /mm/mremap.c
parent88abd8249ee8bcebb98c90e890ea5e342db832af (diff)
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mremap: move_ptes: check pte dirty after its removal
Linus found there still is a race in mremap after commit 5d1904204c99 ("mremap: fix race between mremap() and page cleanning"). As described by Linus: "the issue is that another thread might make the pte be dirty (in the hardware walker, so no locking of ours will make any difference) *after* we checked whether it was dirty, but *before* we removed it from the page tables" Fix it by moving the check after we removed it from the page table. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mremap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mremap.c12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 6ccecc0..30d7d24 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -149,14 +149,18 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *old_pmd,
if (pte_none(*old_pte))
continue;
+ pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pte);
/*
- * We are remapping a dirty PTE, make sure to
- * flush TLB before we drop the PTL for the
+ * If we are remapping a dirty PTE, make sure
+ * to flush TLB before we drop the PTL for the
* old PTE or we may race with page_mkclean().
+ *
+ * This check has to be done after we removed the
+ * old PTE from page tables or another thread may
+ * dirty it after the check and before the removal.
*/
- if (pte_present(*old_pte) && pte_dirty(*old_pte))
+ if (pte_present(pte) && pte_dirty(pte))
force_flush = true;
- pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pte);
pte = move_pte(pte, new_vma->vm_page_prot, old_addr, new_addr);
pte = move_soft_dirty_pte(pte);
set_pte_at(mm, new_addr, new_pte, pte);
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