]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commitdiff
mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:39:49 +0000 (21:39 -0800)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:53:12 +0000 (16:53 +0200)
commit a3e8cc643d22d2c8ed36b9be7d9c9ca21efcf7f7 upstream.

Robert Swiecki reported a BUG_ON(page_mapped) from a fuzzer, punching
a hole with madvise(,, MADV_REMOVE).  That path is under mutex, and
cannot be explained by lack of serialization in unmap_mapping_range().

Reviewing the code, I found one place where vm_truncate_count handling
should have been updated, when I switched at the last minute from one
way of managing the restart_addr to another: mremap move changes the
virtual addresses, so it ought to adjust the restart_addr.

But rather than exporting the notion of restart_addr from memory.c, or
converting to restart_pgoff throughout, simply reset vm_truncate_count
to 0 to force a rescan if mremap move races with preempted truncation.

We have no confirmation that this fixes Robert's BUG,
but it is a fix that's worth making anyway.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kerin Millar <kerframil@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
mm/mremap.c

index cfdeed9d50cb5165d8b78ea2f4a2ab11e715fc5f..63782eb8e5a88177fe2d667b3d6face2fa5f2832 100644 (file)
@@ -89,9 +89,7 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *old_pmd,
                 */
                mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
                spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
-               if (new_vma->vm_truncate_count &&
-                   new_vma->vm_truncate_count != vma->vm_truncate_count)
-                       new_vma->vm_truncate_count = 0;
+               new_vma->vm_truncate_count = 0;
        }
 
        /*