linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect

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Message-Id: <1412275662-16201-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de>
Date:	Thu,  2 Oct 2014 19:47:41 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Kirill A Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect

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@...ux-foundation.org: use maybe_mkwrite]
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
---
 mm/migrate.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index f78ec9b..0c07339 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -146,8 +146,11 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct page *new, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	pte = pte_mkold(mk_pte(new, vma->vm_page_prot));
 	if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(*ptep))
 		pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
+
+	/* Recheck VMA as permissions can change since migration started  */
 	if (is_write_migration_entry(entry))
-		pte = pte_mkwrite(pte);
+		pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte, vma);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
 	if (PageHuge(new)) {
 		pte = pte_mkhuge(pte);
-- 
1.8.4.5

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