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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2018-07-21 02:53:45 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-07-21 21:50:46 +0200
commite1f1b1572e8db87a56609fd05bef76f98f0e456a (patch)
tree97c419c35f7bea38037c6ffa77017fa6ddf1232c /mm/huge_memory.c
parentfat: fix memory allocation failure handling of match_strdup() (diff)
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mm/huge_memory.c: fix data loss when splitting a file pmd
__split_huge_pmd_locked() must check if the cleared huge pmd was dirty, and propagate that to PageDirty: otherwise, data may be lost when a huge tmpfs page is modified then split then reclaimed. How has this taken so long to be noticed? Because there was no problem when the huge page is written by a write system call (shmem_write_end() calls set_page_dirty()), nor when the page is allocated for a write fault (fault_dirty_shared_page() calls set_page_dirty()); but when allocated for a read fault (which MAP_POPULATE simulates), no set_page_dirty(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1807111741430.1106@eggly.anvils Fixes: d21b9e57c74c ("thp: handle file pages in split_huge_pmd()") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinch@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 1cd7c1a57a14..25346bd99364 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2084,6 +2084,8 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
if (vma_is_dax(vma))
return;
page = pmd_page(_pmd);
+ if (!PageDirty(page) && pmd_dirty(_pmd))
+ set_page_dirty(page);
if (!PageReferenced(page) && pmd_young(_pmd))
SetPageReferenced(page);
page_remove_rmap(page, true);