Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.16 06/26] mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2014 16:19:22 -0700 |
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3.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
commit d3cb8bf6081b8b7a2dabb1264fe968fd870fa595 upstream.
A migration entry is marked as write if pte_write was true at the time the entry was created. The VMA protections are not double checked when migration entries are being removed as mprotect marks write-migration-entries as read. It means that potentially we take a spurious fault to mark PTEs write again but it's straight-forward. However, there is a race between write migrations being marked read and migrations finishing. This potentially allows a PTE to be write that should have been read. Close this race by double checking the VMA permissions using maybe_mkwrite when migration completes.
[torvalds@linux-foundation.org: use maybe_mkwrite] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- mm/migrate.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -146,8 +146,11 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct p pte = pte_mkold(mk_pte(new, vma->vm_page_prot)); if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(*ptep)) pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte); + + /* Recheck VMA as permissions can change since migration started */ if (is_write_migration_entry(entry)) - pte = pte_mkwrite(pte); + pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte, vma); + #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE if (PageHuge(new)) { pte = pte_mkhuge(pte);
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