From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:14:49 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Fix get_user_pages() race for write access X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc5~32 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ceb5db9757aaeadcf8fbbf97d76bd42aa4df0d6;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git Fix get_user_pages() race for write access There's no real guarantee that handle_mm_fault() will always be able to break a COW situation - if an update from another thread ends up modifying the page table some way, handle_mm_fault() may end up requiring us to re-try the operation. That's normally fine, but get_user_pages() ended up re-trying it as a read, and thus a write access could in theory end up losing the dirty bit or be done on a page that had not been properly COW'ed. This makes get_user_pages() always retry write accesses as write accesses by making "follow_page()" require that a writable follow has the dirty bit set. That simplifies the code and solves the race: if the COW break fails for some reason, we'll just loop around and try again. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 6fe77acbc1c..4e1c673784d 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -811,18 +811,15 @@ static struct page *__follow_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, pte = *ptep; pte_unmap(ptep); if (pte_present(pte)) { - if (write && !pte_write(pte)) + if (write && !pte_dirty(pte)) goto out; if (read && !pte_read(pte)) goto out; pfn = pte_pfn(pte); if (pfn_valid(pfn)) { page = pfn_to_page(pfn); - if (accessed) { - if (write && !pte_dirty(pte) &&!PageDirty(page)) - set_page_dirty(page); + if (accessed) mark_page_accessed(page); - } return page; } } @@ -941,10 +938,9 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); do { struct page *page; - int lookup_write = write; cond_resched_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); - while (!(page = follow_page(mm, start, lookup_write))) { + while (!(page = follow_page(mm, start, write))) { /* * Shortcut for anonymous pages. We don't want * to force the creation of pages tables for @@ -952,8 +948,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, * nobody touched so far. This is important * for doing a core dump for these mappings. */ - if (!lookup_write && - untouched_anonymous_page(mm,vma,start)) { + if (!write && untouched_anonymous_page(mm,vma,start)) { page = ZERO_PAGE(start); break; } @@ -972,14 +967,6 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, default: BUG(); } - /* - * Now that we have performed a write fault - * and surely no longer have a shared page we - * shouldn't write, we shouldn't ignore an - * unwritable page in the page table if - * we are forcing write access. - */ - lookup_write = write && !force; spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); } if (pages) {