On 01.10.22 00:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:19:28 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Let's stop breaking COW via a fake write fault and let's use
FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE instead. This avoids any wrong side effects of the fake
write fault, such as mapping the PTE writable and marking the pte
dirty/softdirty.
Also, this fixes KSM interaction with userfaultfd-wp: when we have a KSM
page that's write-protected by userfaultfd, break_ksm()->handle_mm_fault()
will fail with VM_FAULT_SIGBUS and will simpy return in break_ksm() with 0.
The warning in dmesg indicates this wrong handling:
We're at -rc7. I'd prefer to avoid merging larger patchsets at this
time.
Yes, this is 6.1 material.
Is there some minimal fix for 6.0 and -stable? Or is the problem
non-serious enough to only fix it in 6.1 and later?
See the end of this lengthy patch description:
"This is primarily a fix for KSM+userfaultfd-wp, however, the fake write
fault was always questionable. As this fix is not easy to backport and
it's not very critical, let's not cc stable."
This can wait, thanks!
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
