mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Thu, 2 Oct 2014 18:47:41 +0000 (19:47 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:27:46 +0000 (20:27 +0000)
commitb47191f7d729d2fabd29fbbf3d57158133d4e0ef
tree765c1f3940f4dbf8e5630ed5310e078bb615dd2b
parent6bf3b2e3ac32809477278d73c9e7a57d7ba82090
mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect

commit d3cb8bf6081b8b7a2dabb1264fe968fd870fa595 upstream.

A migration entry is marked as write if pte_write was true at the time the
entry was created. The VMA protections are not double checked when migration
entries are being removed as mprotect marks write-migration-entries as
read. It means that potentially we take a spurious fault to mark PTEs write
again but it's straight-forward. However, there is a race between write
migrations being marked read and migrations finishing. This potentially
allows a PTE to be write that should have been read. Close this race by
double checking the VMA permissions using maybe_mkwrite when migration
completes.

[torvalds@linux-foundation.org: use maybe_mkwrite]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/migrate.c