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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] mm: Recheck page table entry with page table lock held
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:40:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180926124032.gxvo43sisumybysu@kshutemo-mobl1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180926031858.9692-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 08:48:58AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> We clear the pte temporarily during read/modify/write update of the pte. If we
> take a page fault while the pte is cleared, the application can get SIGBUS. One
> such case is with remap_pfn_range without a backing vm_ops->fault callback.
> do_fault will return SIGBUS in that case.
> 
> cpu 0		 				cpu1
> mprotect()
> ptep_modify_prot_start()/pte cleared.
> .
> .						page fault.
> .
> .
> prep_modify_prot_commit()
> 
> Fix this by taking page table lock and rechecking for pte_none.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> V1:
> * update commit message.

You choosed to stick with VM_FAULT_NOPAGE, that's fine.

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

Should it be in stable?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-26 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-26  3:18 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2018-09-26 12:40 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2019-10-25  3:13 ` Figo.zhang
2019-10-28 12:08   ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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