This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: softdirty: keep bit when zapping file pte
to the 3.16-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:
mm-softdirty-keep-bit-when-zapping-file-pte.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From dbab31aa2ceec2d201966fa0b552f151310ba5f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:05:29 -0700
Subject: mm: softdirty: keep bit when zapping file pte
From: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit dbab31aa2ceec2d201966fa0b552f151310ba5f4 upstream.
This fixes the same bug as b43790eedd31 ("mm: softdirty: don't forget to
save file map softdiry bit on unmap") and 9aed8614af5a ("mm/memory.c:
don't forget to set softdirty on file mapped fault") where the return
value of pte_*mksoft_dirty was being ignored.
To be sure that no other pte/pmd "mk" function return values were being
ignored, I annotated the functions in arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
with __must_check and rebuilt.
The userspace effect of this bug is that the softdirty mark might be
lost if a file mapped pte get zapped.
Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jamie Liu <jamieliu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ again:
addr) != page->index) {
pte_t ptfile = pgoff_to_pte(page->index);
if (pte_soft_dirty(ptent))
- pte_file_mksoft_dirty(ptfile);
+ ptfile = pte_file_mksoft_dirty(ptfile);
set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, ptfile);
}
if (PageAnon(page))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/mm-softdirty-keep-bit-when-zapping-file-pte.patch
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