Re: [PATCH v2 17/39] mm: Fixup places that call pte_mkwrite() directly

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:29:14PM -0700, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> With the introduction of shadow stack memory there are two ways a pte can
> be writable: regular writable memory and shadow stack memory.
> 
> In past patches, maybe_mkwrite() has been updated to apply pte_mkwrite()
> or pte_mkwrite_shstk() depending on the VMA flag. This covers most cases
> where a PTE is made writable. However, there are places where pte_mkwrite()
> is called directly and the logic should now also create a shadow stack PTE
> in the case of a shadow stack VMA.
> 
>  - do_anonymous_page() and migrate_vma_insert_page() check VM_WRITE
>    directly and call pte_mkwrite(), which is the same as maybe_mkwrite()
>    in logic and intention. Just change them to maybe_mkwrite().

Looks like you folded change for do_anonymous_page() into the wrong patch.
I see the relevant change in the previous patch.

-- 
  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov




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