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mm: page_mkclean vs MADV_DONTNEED race
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Tue, 14 May 2019 00:19:11 +0000 (17:19 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 14 May 2019 16:47:48 +0000 (09:47 -0700)
commitd2a85616fd61ef89e6e6c39fa3293c69d8e24cb6
tree1ffdb38113a90bd57f8d8e9666f556eab8e06439
parent7a7110ef0ef9a8ba4f32a5634a94b8fb848fd186
mm: page_mkclean vs MADV_DONTNEED race

MADV_DONTNEED is handled with mmap_sem taken in read mode.  We call
page_mkclean without holding mmap_sem.

MADV_DONTNEED implies that pages in the region are unmapped and subsequent
access to the pages in that range is handled as a new page fault.  This
implies that if we don't have parallel access to the region when
MADV_DONTNEED is run we expect those range to be unallocated.

w.r.t page_mkclean() we need to make sure that we don't break the
MADV_DONTNEED semantics.  MADV_DONTNEED check for pmd_none without holding
pmd_lock.  This implies we skip the pmd if we temporarily mark pmd none.
Avoid doing that while marking the page clean.

Keep the sequence same for dax too even though we don't support
MADV_DONTNEED for dax mapping

The bug was noticed by code review and I didn't observe any failures w.r.t
test run.  This is similar to

commit 146b2a25c0eeb065eb91d458c9d5b3974cbb9fc4
Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 13 14:56:26 2017 -0700

    thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. MADV_FREE race

commit bb6b18db3392a12674f410b59ecdccf62d611831
Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Thu Apr 13 14:56:20 2017 -0700

    thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. numa balancing race

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190321040610.14226-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc:"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/dax.c
mm/rmap.c