The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From a8f60d1fadf7b8b54449fcc9d6b15248917478ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 22:09:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] s390/mm: fix CMMA vs KSM vs others
On heavy paging with KSM I see guest data corruption. Turns out that
KSM will add pages to its tree, where the mapping return true for
pte_unused (or might become as such later). KSM will unmap such pages
and reinstantiate with different attributes (e.g. write protected or
special, e.g. in replace_page or write_protect_page)). This uncovered
a bug in our pagetable handling: We must remove the unused flag as
soon as an entry becomes present again.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-of-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 93e37b12e882..ecec682bb516 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1051,6 +1051,8 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
{
if (!MACHINE_HAS_NX)
pte_val(entry) &= ~_PAGE_NOEXEC;
+ if (pte_present(entry))
+ pte_val(entry) &= ~_PAGE_UNUSED;
if (mm_has_pgste(mm))
ptep_set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, entry);
else