linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] mm/gup: fix FOLL_FORCE COW security issue and remove FOLL

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Date:   Tue, 9 Aug 2022 13:20:36 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mm/gup: fix FOLL_FORCE COW security issue and remove FOLL_COW

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 1:14 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> But as there are two bits, I'm sure somebody ends up touching one and
> not the other.

Ugh. The nommu code certainly does odd things here. That just looks wrong.

And the hugetlb code does something horrible too, but never *sets* it,
so it looks like some odd subset of VM_SHARED.

                 Linus