Re: [PATCH 19/20] dax: Protect PTE modification on WP fault by radix tree entry lock

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:08:23PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Currently PTE gets updated in wp_pfn_shared() after dax_pfn_mkwrite()
> has released corresponding radix tree entry lock. When we want to
> writeprotect PTE on cache flush, we need PTE modification to happen
> under radix tree entry lock to ensure consisten updates of PTE and radix
					consistent

> tree (standard faults use page lock to ensure this consistency). So move
> update of PTE bit into dax_pfn_mkwrite().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/dax.c    | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
>  mm/memory.c |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
> index c6cadf8413a3..a2d3781c9f4e 100644
> --- a/fs/dax.c
> +++ b/fs/dax.c
> @@ -1163,17 +1163,27 @@ int dax_pfn_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  {
>  	struct file *file = vma->vm_file;
>  	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
> -	void *entry;
> +	void *entry, **slot;
>  	pgoff_t index = vmf->pgoff;
>  
>  	spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> -	entry = get_unlocked_mapping_entry(mapping, index, NULL);
> -	if (!entry || !radix_tree_exceptional_entry(entry))
> -		goto out;
> +	entry = get_unlocked_mapping_entry(mapping, index, &slot);
> +	if (!entry || !radix_tree_exceptional_entry(entry)) {
> +		if (entry)
> +			put_unlocked_mapping_entry(mapping, index, entry);

I don't think you need this call to put_unlocked_mapping_entry().  If we get
in here we know that 'entry' is a page cache page, in which case
put_unlocked_mapping_entry() will just return without doing any work.

With that nit & the spelling error above:

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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