This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: don't lose the SOFT_DIRTY flag on mprotect
to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-don-t-lose-the-soft_dirty-flag-on-mprotect.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 24f91eba18bbfdb27e71a1aae5b3a61b67fcd091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Vagin <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:46:10 -0800
Subject: mm: don't lose the SOFT_DIRTY flag on mprotect
From: Andrey Vagin <[email protected]>
commit 24f91eba18bbfdb27e71a1aae5b3a61b67fcd091 upstream.
The SOFT_DIRTY bit shows that the content of memory was changed after a
defined point in the past. mprotect() doesn't change the content of
memory, so it must not change the SOFT_DIRTY bit.
This bug causes a malfunction: on the first iteration all pages are
dumped. On other iterations only pages with the SOFT_DIRTY bit are
dumped. So if the SOFT_DIRTY bit is cleared from a page by mistake, the
page is not dumped and its content will be restored incorrectly.
This patch does nothing with _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY, becase pte_modify()
is called only for present pages.
Fixes commit 0f8975ec4db2 ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes
tracking").
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Wen Congyang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@
/* Set of bits not changed in pte_modify */
#define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT | \
- _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY)
+ _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY | \
+ _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY)
#define _HPAGE_CHG_MASK (_PAGE_CHG_MASK | _PAGE_PSE)
#define _PAGE_CACHE_MASK (_PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.13/mm-don-t-lose-the-soft_dirty-flag-on-mprotect.patch
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