The patch titled Subject: userfaultfd: wp: drop _PAGE_UFFD_WP properly when fork has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is userfaultfd-wp-drop-_page_uffd_wp-properly-when-fork.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/userfaultfd-wp-drop-_page_uffd_wp-properly-when-fork.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/userfaultfd-wp-drop-_page_uffd_wp-properly-when-fork.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: userfaultfd: wp: drop _PAGE_UFFD_WP properly when fork UFFD_EVENT_FORK support for uffd-wp should be already there, except that we should clean the uffd-wp bit if uffd fork event is not enabled. Detect that to avoid _PAGE_UFFD_WP being set even if the VMA is not being tracked by VM_UFFD_WP. Do this for both small PTEs and huge PMDs. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220163112.11409-9-peterx@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 8 ++++++++ mm/memory.c | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~userfaultfd-wp-drop-_page_uffd_wp-properly-when-fork +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1018,6 +1018,14 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_ ret = -EAGAIN; pmd = *src_pmd; + /* + * Make sure the _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit is cleared if the new VMA + * does not have the VM_UFFD_WP, which means that the uffd + * fork event is not enabled. + */ + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_UFFD_WP)) + pmd = pmd_clear_uffd_wp(pmd); + #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION if (unlikely(is_swap_pmd(pmd))) { swp_entry_t entry = pmd_to_swp_entry(pmd); --- a/mm/memory.c~userfaultfd-wp-drop-_page_uffd_wp-properly-when-fork +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -785,6 +785,14 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, s pte = pte_mkclean(pte); pte = pte_mkold(pte); + /* + * Make sure the _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit is cleared if the new VMA + * does not have the VM_UFFD_WP, which means that the uffd + * fork event is not enabled. + */ + if (!(vm_flags & VM_UFFD_WP)) + pte = pte_clear_uffd_wp(pte); + page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, pte); if (page) { get_page(page); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from peterx@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-gup-rename-nonblocking-to-locked-where-proper.patch mm-gup-fix-__get_user_pages-on-fault-retry-of-hugetlb.patch mm-introduce-fault_signal_pending.patch x86-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch arc-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch arm64-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch powerpc-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch sh-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch mm-return-faster-for-non-fatal-signals-in-user-mode-faults.patch userfaultfd-dont-retake-mmap_sem-to-emulate-nopage.patch mm-introduce-fault_flag_default.patch mm-introduce-fault_flag_interruptible.patch mm-allow-vm_fault_retry-for-multiple-times.patch mm-gup-allow-vm_fault_retry-for-multiple-times.patch mm-gup-allow-to-react-to-fatal-signals.patch mm-userfaultfd-honor-fault_flag_killable-in-fault-path.patch mm-merge-parameters-for-change_protection.patch userfaultfd-wp-apply-_page_uffd_wp-bit.patch userfaultfd-wp-drop-_page_uffd_wp-properly-when-fork.patch userfaultfd-wp-add-pmd_swp_uffd_wp-helpers.patch userfaultfd-wp-support-swap-and-page-migration.patch khugepaged-skip-collapse-if-uffd-wp-detected.patch userfaultfd-wp-dont-wake-up-when-doing-write-protect.patch userfaultfd-wp-declare-_uffdio_writeprotect-conditionally.patch userfaultfd-selftests-refactor-statistics.patch userfaultfd-selftests-add-write-protect-test.patch