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| author |   Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2009-01-06 14:39:33 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-06 15:59:03 -0800 |
| commit | ab967d86015a19777955370deebc8262d50fed63 (patch) | |
| tree | be0807bef32c0d28ac6dbcf7c8b938840d2f2a3f /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | mm: gup persist for write permission (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-ab967d86015a19777955370deebc8262d50fed63.tar.xz linux-dev-ab967d86015a19777955370deebc8262d50fed63.zip | |
mm: wp lock page before deciding cow
An application may rely on get_user_pages() to give it pages writable from
userspace and shared with a driver, GUP breaking COW if necessary. It may
mprotect() the pages' writability, off and on, from time to time.
Normally this works fine (so long as the app does not fork); but just
occasionally, under memory pressure, a readonly pte in a newly writable
area is COWed unnecessarily, breaking the link with the driver: because
do_wp_page() does trylock_page, and falls back to COW whenever that fails.
For reliable behaviour in the unshared case, when the trylock_page fails,
now unlock pagetable, lock page and relock pagetable, before deciding
whether Copy-On-Write is really necessary.
Reported-by: Zhou Yingchao
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index f594bb65a9f1..3922ffcf3dff 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1848,10 +1848,21 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, * not dirty accountable. */ if (PageAnon(old_page)) { - if (trylock_page(old_page)) { - reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page); - unlock_page(old_page); + if (!trylock_page(old_page)) { + page_cache_get(old_page); + pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl); + lock_page(old_page); + page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, + &ptl); + if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte)) { + unlock_page(old_page); + page_cache_release(old_page); + goto unlock; + } + page_cache_release(old_page); } + reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page); + unlock_page(old_page); } else if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) { /* |