mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared
For VMAs that don't want write notifications, PTEs created for read faults
have their write bit set. If the read fault happens after VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared, then the PTE's softdirty bit will remain clear after subsequent
writes.
Here's a simple code snippet to demonstrate the bug:
char* m = mmap(NULL, getpagesize(), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
system("echo 4 > /proc/$PPID/clear_refs"); /* clear VM_SOFTDIRTY */
assert(*m == '\0'); /* new PTE allows write access */
assert(!soft_dirty(x));
*m = 'x'; /* should dirty the page */
assert(soft_dirty(x)); /* fails */
With this patch, write notifications are enabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is
cleared. Furthermore, to avoid unnecessary faults, write notifications
are disabled when VM_SOFTDIRTY is set.
As a side effect of enabling and disabling write notifications with
care, this patch fixes a bug in mprotect where vm_page_prot bits set by
drivers were zapped on mprotect. An analogous bug was fixed in mmap by
commit c9d0bf241451 ("mm: uncached vma support with writenotify").
Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Reported-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Jamie Liu <jamieliu@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index b7a7dc9..4e0388c 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -827,8 +827,21 @@
.private = &cp,
};
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- if (type == CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY)
+ if (type == CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY) {
+ for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
+ if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY))
+ continue;
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
+ vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_SOFTDIRTY;
+ vma_set_page_prot(vma);
+ }
+ downgrade_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ break;
+ }
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, 0, -1);
+ }
for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
cp.vma = vma;
if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
@@ -848,10 +861,6 @@
continue;
if (type == CLEAR_REFS_MAPPED && !vma->vm_file)
continue;
- if (type == CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY) {
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY)
- vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_SOFTDIRTY;
- }
walk_page_range(vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
&clear_refs_walk);
}