This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs clear soft dirty race
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
thp-fix-madv_dontneed-vs-clear-soft-dirty-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5b7abeae3af8c08c577e599dd0578b9e3ee6687b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:56:28 -0700
Subject: thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs clear soft dirty race
From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 5b7abeae3af8c08c577e599dd0578b9e3ee6687b upstream.
Yet another instance of the same race.
Fix is identical to change_huge_pmd().
See "thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. numa balancing race" for more details.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302151034.27829-5-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -803,7 +803,14 @@ static inline void clear_soft_dirty(stru
static inline void clear_soft_dirty_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp)
{
- pmd_t pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmdp);
+ pmd_t pmd = *pmdp;
+
+ /* See comment in change_huge_pmd() */
+ pmdp_invalidate(vma, addr, pmdp);
+ if (pmd_dirty(*pmdp))
+ pmd = pmd_mkdirty(pmd);
+ if (pmd_young(*pmdp))
+ pmd = pmd_mkyoung(pmd);
pmd = pmd_wrprotect(pmd);
pmd = pmd_clear_soft_dirty(pmd);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/thp-fix-madv_dontneed-vs-clear-soft-dirty-race.patch