mm: vm_page_prot: update with WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE

vma->vm_page_prot is read lockless from the rmap_walk, it may be updated
concurrently and this prevents the risk of reading intermediate values.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474660305-19222-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

4 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 12b9f1a..cdcd25c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1620,7 +1620,7 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 			if (soft_dirty)
 				entry = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(entry);
 		} else {
-			entry = mk_pte(page + i, vma->vm_page_prot);
+			entry = mk_pte(page + i, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot));
 			entry = maybe_mkwrite(entry, vma);
 			if (!write)
 				entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index f7ee04a..99250ae 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct page *new, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		goto unlock;
 
 	get_page(new);
-	pte = pte_mkold(mk_pte(new, vma->vm_page_prot));
+	pte = pte_mkold(mk_pte(new, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot)));
 	if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(*ptep))
 		pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
 
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 7a0707a..b3b74cc 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -116,13 +116,15 @@ static pgprot_t vm_pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, unsigned long vm_flags)
 void vma_set_page_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
+	pgprot_t vm_page_prot;
 
-	vma->vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_flags);
-	if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma)) {
+	vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_flags);
+	if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma, vm_page_prot)) {
 		vm_flags &= ~VM_SHARED;
-		vma->vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot,
-						     vm_flags);
+		vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vm_page_prot, vm_flags);
 	}
+	/* remove_protection_ptes reads vma->vm_page_prot without mmap_sem */
+	WRITE_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_page_prot);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1386,7 +1388,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(old_mmap, struct mmap_arg_struct __user *, arg)
  * to the private version (using protection_map[] without the
  * VM_SHARED bit).
  */
-int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t vm_page_prot)
 {
 	vm_flags_t vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
 	const struct vm_operations_struct *vm_ops = vma->vm_ops;
@@ -1401,8 +1403,8 @@ int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 
 	/* The open routine did something to the protections that pgprot_modify
 	 * won't preserve? */
-	if (pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) !=
-	    pgprot_val(vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_flags)))
+	if (pgprot_val(vm_page_prot) !=
+	    pgprot_val(vm_pgprot_modify(vm_page_prot, vm_flags)))
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Do we need to track softdirty? */
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index a4830f0..063bbed 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ success:
 	 * held in write mode.
 	 */
 	vma->vm_flags = newflags;
-	dirty_accountable = vma_wants_writenotify(vma);
+	dirty_accountable = vma_wants_writenotify(vma, vma->vm_page_prot);
 	vma_set_page_prot(vma);
 
 	change_protection(vma, start, end, vma->vm_page_prot,