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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2016-10-08 02:01:22 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-08 03:46:29 +0200
commit6d2329f8872f23e46a19d240930571510ce525eb (patch)
tree598cc5a8d764aa497570b359fc1328be5fa105cc /mm/mmap.c
parentmm,ksm: add __GFP_HIGH to the allocation in alloc_stable_node() (diff)
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mm: vm_page_prot: update with WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE
vma->vm_page_prot is read lockless from the rmap_walk, it may be updated concurrently and this prevents the risk of reading intermediate values. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474660305-19222-1-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Jan Vorlicek <janvorli@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 7a0707a48047..b3b74cc705ae 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -116,13 +116,15 @@ static pgprot_t vm_pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, unsigned long vm_flags)
void vma_set_page_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
+ pgprot_t vm_page_prot;
- vma->vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_flags);
- if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma)) {
+ vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_flags);
+ if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma, vm_page_prot)) {
vm_flags &= ~VM_SHARED;
- vma->vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot,
- vm_flags);
+ vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vm_page_prot, vm_flags);
}
+ /* remove_protection_ptes reads vma->vm_page_prot without mmap_sem */
+ WRITE_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_page_prot);
}
/*
@@ -1386,7 +1388,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(old_mmap, struct mmap_arg_struct __user *, arg)
* to the private version (using protection_map[] without the
* VM_SHARED bit).
*/
-int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t vm_page_prot)
{
vm_flags_t vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
const struct vm_operations_struct *vm_ops = vma->vm_ops;
@@ -1401,8 +1403,8 @@ int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
/* The open routine did something to the protections that pgprot_modify
* won't preserve? */
- if (pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) !=
- pgprot_val(vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_flags)))
+ if (pgprot_val(vm_page_prot) !=
+ pgprot_val(vm_pgprot_modify(vm_page_prot, vm_flags)))
return 0;
/* Do we need to track softdirty? */