linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13 146/163] mm: softdirty: keep bit when zapping file pte

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Date:	Thu,  9 Oct 2014 14:02:51 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Jamie Liu <jamieliu@...gle.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13 146/163] mm: softdirty: keep bit when zapping file pte

3.13.11.9 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>

commit dbab31aa2ceec2d201966fa0b552f151310ba5f4 upstream.

This fixes the same bug as b43790eedd31 ("mm: softdirty: don't forget to
save file map softdiry bit on unmap") and 9aed8614af5a ("mm/memory.c:
don't forget to set softdirty on file mapped fault") where the return
value of pte_*mksoft_dirty was being ignored.

To be sure that no other pte/pmd "mk" function return values were being
ignored, I annotated the functions in arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
with __must_check and rebuilt.

The userspace effect of this bug is that the softdirty mark might be
lost if a file mapped pte get zapped.

Signed-off-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Cc: Jamie Liu <jamieliu@...gle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 mm/memory.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index d411f0d..e3c11e4 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ again:
 						addr) != page->index) {
 				pte_t ptfile = pgoff_to_pte(page->index);
 				if (pte_soft_dirty(ptent))
-					pte_file_mksoft_dirty(ptfile);
+					ptfile = pte_file_mksoft_dirty(ptfile);
 				set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, ptfile);
 			}
 			if (PageAnon(page))
-- 
1.9.1

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