Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Apr 2024 15:12:49 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in COW mappings |
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 23:21:30 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
> PAT handling won't do the right thing in COW mappings: the first PTE > (or, in fact, all PTEs) can be replaced during write faults to point at > anon folios. Reliably recovering the correct PFN and cachemode using > follow_phys() from PTEs will not work in COW mappings. > > ... > > Reported-by: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com> > Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240227122814.3781907-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com > Fixes: b1a86e15dc03 ("x86, pat: remove the dependency on 'vm_pgoff' in track/untrack pfn vma routines") > Fixes: 5899329b1910 ("x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3")
These are really old. Should we backport this?
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