mm/huge_memory.c: fix data loss when splitting a file pmd
__split_huge_pmd_locked() must check if the cleared huge pmd was dirty, and propagate that to PageDirty: otherwise, data may be lost when a huge tmpfs page is modified then split then reclaimed. How has this taken so long to be noticed? Because there was no problem when the huge page is written by a write system call (shmem_write_end() calls set_page_dirty()), nor when the page is allocated for a write fault (fault_dirty_shared_page() calls set_page_dirty()); but when allocated for a read fault (which MAP_POPULATE simulates), no set_page_dirty(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1807111741430.1106@eggly.anvils Fixes: d21b9e57 ("thp: handle file pages in split_huge_pmd()") Signed-off-by:Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by:
Ashwin Chaugule <ashwinch@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.8+] Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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