From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@gmail.com> commit 9aed8614af5a05cdaa32a0b78b0f1a424754a958 upstream
Otherwise we may not notice that pte was softdirty because pte_mksoft_dirty helper _returns_ new pte but doesn't modify the argument. In case if page fault happend on dirty filemapping the newly created pte may loose softdirty bit thus if a userspace program is tracking memory changes with help of a memory tracker (CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY) it might miss modification of a memory page (which in worts case may lead to data inconsistency). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@openvz.org> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xe...@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang....@windriver.com> --- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index c578b05..b27a532 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3427,7 +3427,7 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma); else if (pte_file(orig_pte) && pte_file_soft_dirty(orig_pte)) - pte_mksoft_dirty(entry); + entry = pte_mksoft_dirty(entry); if (anon) { inc_mm_counter_fast(mm, MM_ANONPAGES); page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, address); -- 2.0.2 -- _______________________________________________ linux-yocto mailing list linux-yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/linux-yocto