linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen/gntdev.c: Mark pages as dirty

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Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:41:47 -0400
From:   boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com
To:     Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>, jgross@...e.com,
        sstabellini@...nel.org
Cc:     xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen/gntdev.c: Mark pages as dirty


On 9/6/20 2:51 AM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> There seems to be a bug in the original code when gntdev_get_page()
> is called with writeable=true then the page needs to be marked dirty
> before being put.
>
> To address this, a bool writeable is added in gnt_dev_copy_batch, set
> it in gntdev_grant_copy_seg() (and drop `writeable` argument to
> gntdev_get_page()) and then, based on batch->writeable, use
> set_page_dirty_lock().
>
> Fixes: a4cdb556cae0 (xen/gntdev: add ioctl for grant copy)
> Suggested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>
> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>


Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

(can be added at commit time)

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>