Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/rmap: Fixup copying of soft dirty and uffd ptes

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On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 04:42:32PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> During memory migration a pte is temporarily replaced with a migration
> swap pte. Some pte bits from the existing mapping such as the soft-dirty
> and uffd write-protect bits are preserved by copying these to the
> temporary migration swap pte.
> 
> However these bits are not stored at the same location for swap and
> non-swap ptes. Therefore testing these bits requires using the
> appropriate helper function for the given pte type.
> 
> Unfortunately several code locations were found where the wrong helper
> function is being used to test soft_dirty and uffd_wp bits which leads
> to them getting incorrectly set or cleared during page-migration.
> 
> Fix these by using the correct tests based on pte type.
> 
> Fixes: a5430dda8a3a ("mm/migrate: support un-addressable ZONE_DEVICE page in migration")
> Fixes: 8c3328f1f36a ("mm/migrate: migrate_vma() unmap page from vma while collecting pages")
> Fixes: f45ec5ff16a7 ("userfaultfd: wp: support swap and page migration")
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Peter Xu




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