From 24f91eba18bbfdb27e71a1aae5b3a61b67fcd091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Vagin Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:46:10 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: don't lose the SOFT_DIRTY flag on mprotect The SOFT_DIRTY bit shows that the content of memory was changed after a defined point in the past. mprotect() doesn't change the content of memory, so it must not change the SOFT_DIRTY bit. This bug causes a malfunction: on the first iteration all pages are dumped. On other iterations only pages with the SOFT_DIRTY bit are dumped. So if the SOFT_DIRTY bit is cleared from a page by mistake, the page is not dumped and its content will be restored incorrectly. This patch does nothing with _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY, becase pte_modify() is called only for present pages. Fixes commit 0f8975ec4db2 ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking"). Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Wen Congyang Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed