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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2014-10-02 19:47:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-10-02 11:57:18 -0700 |
| commit | d3cb8bf6081b8b7a2dabb1264fe968fd870fa595 (patch) | |
| tree | 50783c31445c93012fe0ded14d4a49a03e0d504c /mm/migrate.c | |
| parent | 50dddff3cb9af328dd42bafe3437c7f47e8b38a9 (diff) | |
mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
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.
[torvalds@linux-foundation.org: use maybe_mkwrite]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/migrate.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/migrate.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index f78ec9bd454d..2740360cd216 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -146,8 +146,11 @@ 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); |