Without this KSM will consider the page write protected, but a numa fault can later mark the page writable. This can result in memory corruption.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]> --- include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 8 ++++++++ mm/ksm.c | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h index b6f3a8a4b738..8c8ba48bef0b 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h @@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addres #define pte_mk_savedwrite pte_mkwrite #endif +#ifndef pte_clear_savedwrite +#define pte_clear_savedwrite pte_wrprotect +#endif + #ifndef pmd_savedwrite #define pmd_savedwrite pmd_write #endif @@ -208,6 +212,10 @@ static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addres #define pmd_mk_savedwrite pmd_mkwrite #endif +#ifndef pmd_clear_savedwrite +#define pmd_clear_savedwrite pmd_wrprotect +#endif + #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SET_WRPROTECT #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE static inline void pmdp_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 9ae6011a41f8..768202831578 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -872,7 +872,8 @@ static int write_protect_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, if (!ptep) goto out_mn; - if (pte_write(*ptep) || pte_dirty(*ptep)) { + if (pte_write(*ptep) || pte_dirty(*ptep) || + (pte_protnone(*ptep) && pte_savedwrite(*ptep))) { pte_t entry; swapped = PageSwapCache(page); @@ -897,7 +898,11 @@ static int write_protect_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, } if (pte_dirty(entry)) set_page_dirty(page); - entry = pte_mkclean(pte_wrprotect(entry)); + + if (pte_protnone(entry)) + entry = pte_mkclean(pte_clear_savedwrite(entry)); + else + entry = pte_mkclean(pte_wrprotect(entry)); set_pte_at_notify(mm, addr, ptep, entry); } *orig_pte = *ptep; -- 2.7.4
