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Commit 24f91eba authored by Andrey Vagin's avatar Andrey Vagin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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 0f8975ec

 ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes
tracking").

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent a0320865
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