Linus found there still is a race in mremap after commit 5d1904204c99
("mremap: fix race between mremap() and page cleanning").
As described by Linus:
the issue is that another thread might make the pte be dirty (in
the hardware walker, so no locking of ours make any difference)
*after* we checked whether it was dirty, but *before* we removed it
from the page tables.
Fix it by moving the check after we removed it from the page table.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron...@intel.com>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 4 ++--
mm/mremap.c | 8 ++++++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index eff3de359d50..d4a6e4001512 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1456,9 +1456,9 @@ bool move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned
long old_addr,
new_ptl = pmd_lockptr(mm, new_pmd);
if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
spin_lock_nested(new_ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
- if (pmd_present(*old_pmd) && pmd_dirty(*old_pmd))
- force_flush = true;
pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pmd);
+ if (pmd_present(pmd) && pmd_dirty(pmd))
+ force_flush = true;
VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd));
if (pmd_move_must_withdraw(new_ptl, old_ptl) &&
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 6ccecc03f56a..53df7ec8d2ba 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -149,14 +149,18 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t
*old_pmd,
if (pte_none(*old_pte))
continue;
+ pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pte);
/*
* We are remapping a dirty PTE, make sure to
* flush TLB before we drop the PTL for the
* old PTE or we may race with page_mkclean().
+ *
+ * This check has to be done after we removed the
+ * old PTE from page tables or another thread may
+ * dirty it after the check and before the removal.
*/
- if (pte_present(*old_pte) && pte_dirty(*old_pte))
+ if (pte_present(pte) && pte_dirty(pte))
force_flush = true;
- pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pte);
pte = move_pte(pte, new_vma->vm_page_prot, old_addr, new_addr);
pte = move_soft_dirty_pte(pte);
set_pte_at(mm, new_addr, new_pte, pte);
--
2.5.5
