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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>, <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	<linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: avoid corrupting page->mapping in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 16:06:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220716160629.d065828c84ad2423c10f7733@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a47922cf-eb30-1ad9-fc96-1896254564ef@huawei.com>

On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:59:53 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:

> On 2022/7/14 1:23, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 21:05:42 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> In MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE case with a non-shared VMA, pages in the page
> >> cache are installed in the ptes. But hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap is called
> >> for them mistakenly because they're not vm_shared. This will corrupt the
> >> page->mapping used by page cache code.
> > 
> > Well that sounds bad.  And theories on why this has gone unnoticed for
> > over a year?  I assume this doesn't have coverage in our selftests?
> 
> As discussed in another thread, when minor fault handling is proposed, only
> VM_SHARED vma is expected to be supported

So...  do we feel that this fix should be backported?  And if so, is
there a suitable commit for the Fixes:?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-16 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-12 13:05 Miaohe Lin
2022-07-12 17:39 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-07-13  2:10   ` Miaohe Lin
2022-07-13 14:24   ` Peter Xu
2022-07-13 16:10     ` Peter Xu
2022-07-13 22:46       ` Axel Rasmussen
2022-07-13 23:36         ` Mike Kravetz
2022-07-14  0:20           ` Axel Rasmussen
2022-07-14 10:09             ` Miaohe Lin
2022-07-14 15:45               ` Peter Xu
2022-07-15  2:50                 ` Miaohe Lin
2022-07-13 17:23 ` Andrew Morton
2022-07-14  9:59   ` Miaohe Lin
2022-07-14 15:52     ` Peter Xu
2022-07-15  3:56       ` Miaohe Lin
2022-07-15 12:35         ` Peter Xu
2022-07-15 16:45           ` Axel Rasmussen
2022-07-15 17:07             ` Peter Xu
2022-07-15 17:28               ` Axel Rasmussen
2022-07-15 17:39                 ` Peter Xu
2022-07-15 17:51                   ` Axel Rasmussen
2022-07-16  1:32                     ` Miaohe Lin
2022-07-15 17:29               ` Mike Kravetz
2022-07-15 17:38                 ` Peter Xu
2022-07-16 23:06     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-07-18  2:25       ` Miaohe Lin
2022-07-18 18:07         ` Axel Rasmussen

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