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Commit dcf7fe9d authored by Andrea Arcangeli's avatar Andrea Arcangeli Committed by Linus Torvalds
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userfaultfd: shmem: UFFDIO_COPY: set the page dirty if VM_WRITE is not set



Set the page dirty if VM_WRITE is not set because in such case the pte
won't be marked dirty and the page would be reclaimed without writepage
(i.e.  swapout in the shmem case).

This was found by source review.  Most apps (certainly including QEMU)
only use UFFDIO_COPY on PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE mappings or the app can't
modify the memory in the first place.  This is for correctness and it
could help the non cooperative use case to avoid unexpected data loss.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181126173452.26955-6-aarcange@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4c27fe4c

 ("userfaultfd: shmem: add shmem_mcopy_atomic_pte for userfaultfd support")
Reported-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent e2a50c1f
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