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mremap: move_ptes: check pte dirty after its removal
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Linus found there still is a race in mremap after commit 5d19042
("mremap: fix race between mremap() and page cleanning").

As described by Linus:
 "the issue is that another thread might make the pte be dirty (in the
  hardware walker, so no locking of ours will make any difference)
  *after* we checked whether it was dirty, but *before* we removed it
  from the page tables"

Fix it by moving the check after we removed it from the page table.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Aaron Lu authored and torvalds committed Nov 29, 2016
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions mm/huge_memory.c
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Expand Up @@ -1456,9 +1456,9 @@ bool move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
new_ptl = pmd_lockptr(mm, new_pmd);
if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
spin_lock_nested(new_ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
if (pmd_present(*old_pmd) && pmd_dirty(*old_pmd))
force_flush = true;
pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pmd);
if (pmd_present(pmd) && pmd_dirty(pmd))
force_flush = true;
VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd));

if (pmd_move_must_withdraw(new_ptl, old_ptl) &&
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12 changes: 8 additions & 4 deletions mm/mremap.c
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Expand Up @@ -149,14 +149,18 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *old_pmd,
if (pte_none(*old_pte))
continue;

pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pte);
/*
* We are remapping a dirty PTE, make sure to
* flush TLB before we drop the PTL for the
* If we are remapping a dirty PTE, make sure
* to flush TLB before we drop the PTL for the
* old PTE or we may race with page_mkclean().
*
* This check has to be done after we removed the
* old PTE from page tables or another thread may
* dirty it after the check and before the removal.
*/
if (pte_present(*old_pte) && pte_dirty(*old_pte))
if (pte_present(pte) && pte_dirty(pte))
force_flush = true;
pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pte);
pte = move_pte(pte, new_vma->vm_page_prot, old_addr, new_addr);
pte = move_soft_dirty_pte(pte);
set_pte_at(mm, new_addr, new_pte, pte);
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