From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know.
=============== 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. [[email protected]: use maybe_mkwrite] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> --- mm/migrate.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 96d4d814ae2f..d5c84b0a5243 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -164,8 +164,11 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct page *new, struct vm_area_struct *vma, 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); -- 2.1.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
