linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: Don't forget to set softdirty on file mapped fault

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2014 23:21:51 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Don't forget to set softdirty on file mapped fault

Otherwise we may not notice that pte was softdirty because pte_mksoft_dirty
helper _returns_ new pte but not modifies argument.

CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
---
 mm/memory.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/memory.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/mm/memory.c
@@ -2744,7 +2744,7 @@ void do_set_pte(struct vm_area_struct *v
 	if (write)
 		entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
 	else if (pte_file(*pte) && pte_file_soft_dirty(*pte))
-		pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
+		entry = pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
 	if (anon) {
 		inc_mm_counter_fast(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
 		page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, address);
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