linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Nick Piggin 479db0bf40 mm: dirty page tracking race fix
There is a race with dirty page accounting where a page may not properly
be accounted for.

clear_page_dirty_for_io() calls page_mkclean; then TestClearPageDirty.

page_mkclean walks the rmaps for that page, and for each one it cleans and
write protects the pte if it was dirty.  It uses page_check_address to
find the pte.  That function has a shortcut to avoid the ptl if the pte is
not present.  Unfortunately, the pte can be switched to not-present then
back to present by other code while holding the page table lock -- this
should not be a signal for page_mkclean to ignore that pte, because it may
be dirty.

For example, powerpc64's set_pte_at will clear a previously present pte
before setting it to the desired value.  There may also be other code in
core mm or in arch which do similar things.

The consequence of the bug is loss of data integrity due to msync, and
loss of dirty page accounting accuracy.  XIP's __xip_unmap could easily
also be unreliable (depending on the exact XIP locking scheme), which can
lead to data corruption.

Fix this by having an option to always take ptl to check the pte in
page_check_address.

It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and
try_to_unmap.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20 15:40:32 -07:00
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acpi ACPICA: Additional error checking for pathname utilities 2008-08-15 02:12:16 +02:00
asm-arm [ARM] 5191/1: ARM: remove CVS keywords 2008-08-16 20:01:18 +01:00
asm-blackfin Blackfin arch: hook up some missing new system calls 2008-08-14 15:40:19 +08:00
asm-cris Reduce brokenness of CRIS headers_install 2008-08-20 13:19:51 -07:00
asm-frv FRV: Provide ioremap_wc() for FRV 2008-08-20 13:19:52 -07:00
asm-generic Make ioctl.h compatible with userland 2008-08-12 16:07:31 -07:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
asm-m68k m68k{,nommu}: Wire up new system calls 2008-08-11 10:37:34 -07:00
asm-mips kexec jump: rename KEXEC_CONTROL_CODE_SIZE to KEXEC_CONTROL_PAGE_SIZE 2008-08-15 08:35:42 -07:00
asm-mn10300 MN10300: Supply ioremap_wc() for MN10300 2008-08-20 13:19:51 -07:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
asm-um [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
asm-x86 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-08-18 12:10:14 -07:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
crypto crypto: hash - Add missing top-level functions 2008-08-13 20:08:44 +10:00
drm
keys
linux mm: dirty page tracking race fix 2008-08-20 15:40:32 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (8610): Add suspend/resume capabilities to soc_camera. 2008-08-06 06:57:32 -03:00
mtd Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6 2008-07-25 10:40:14 -04:00
net Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2008-08-18 21:15:44 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma RDMA/cma: Remove padding arrays by using struct sockaddr_storage 2008-08-04 11:02:14 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] sd: fix USB devices incorrectly reporting DIF support 2008-08-06 10:49:23 -07:00
sound ALSA: ASoC: Export dapm_reg_event() fully 2008-07-29 16:00:33 +02:00
video atmel_lcdfb: add board parameter specify framebuffer memory size 2008-08-12 16:07:29 -07:00
xen
Kbuild kbuild: only one call for include/ in make headers_* 2008-07-25 22:11:44 +02:00