]> git.itanic.dy.fi Git - linux-stable/commitdiff
mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:39:49 +0000 (21:39 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:45:31 +0000 (12:45 -0700)
commit a3e8cc643d22d2c8ed36b9be7d9c9ca21efcf7f7 upstream.

Robert Swiecki reported a BUG_ON(page_mapped) from a fuzzer, punching
a hole with madvise(,, MADV_REMOVE).  That path is under mutex, and
cannot be explained by lack of serialization in unmap_mapping_range().

Reviewing the code, I found one place where vm_truncate_count handling
should have been updated, when I switched at the last minute from one
way of managing the restart_addr to another: mremap move changes the
virtual addresses, so it ought to adjust the restart_addr.

But rather than exporting the notion of restart_addr from memory.c, or
converting to restart_pgoff throughout, simply reset vm_truncate_count
to 0 to force a rescan if mremap move races with preempted truncation.

We have no confirmation that this fixes Robert's BUG,
but it is a fix that's worth making anyway.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kerin Millar <kerframil@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
mm/mremap.c

index 845190898d59f206201b4b5d60f1d4534a755913..166b824c20667e743c7b7b2e6474cb6fb7642eca 100644 (file)
@@ -92,9 +92,7 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *old_pmd,
                 */
                mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
                spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
-               if (new_vma->vm_truncate_count &&
-                   new_vma->vm_truncate_count != vma->vm_truncate_count)
-                       new_vma->vm_truncate_count = 0;
+               new_vma->vm_truncate_count = 0;
        }
 
        /*