On Thursday 13 March 2008 00:21:36 Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/exec.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/exec.c
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/exec.c
> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
> #include <linux/tsacct_kern.h>
> #include <linux/cn_proc.h>
> #include <linux/audit.h>
> +#include <linux/page-states.h>
>
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
I haven't compile-tested, but this seems unnecessary; it's the only change to
this file.
> +/**
> + * __page_reset_writable() - clear the PageWritable bit
> + *
> + * @page: the page
> + */
> +void __page_reset_writable(struct page *page)
> +{
> + preempt_disable();
> + if (!page_test_set_state_change(page)) {
> + ClearPageWritable(page);
> + page_clear_state_change(page);
> + }
> + preempt_enable();
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_reset_writable);
If I understand correctly, you don't bother resetting the writable bit if you
don't get the state_change lock. Is this best effort, or is there some
correctness issue here?
Cheers,
Rusty.
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