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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-06-23 14:30:30 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-06-23 11:28:32 -0700
commit945754a1754f9d4c2974a8241ad4f92fad7f3a6a (patch)
treed310dc918d8094a1a6e00e15b24f7953616d7a82
parent672ca28e300c17bf8d792a2a7a8631193e580c74 (diff)
mm: fix race in COW logic
There is a race in the COW logic. It contains a shortcut to avoid the COW and reuse the page if we have the sole reference on the page, however it is possible to have two racing do_wp_page()ers with one causing the other to mistakenly believe it is safe to take the shortcut when it is not. This could lead to data corruption. Process 1 and process2 each have a wp pte of the same anon page (ie. one forked the other). The page's mapcount is 2. Then they both attempt to write to it around the same time... proc1 proc2 thr1 proc2 thr2 CPU0 CPU1 CPU3 do_wp_page() do_wp_page() trylock_page() can_share_swap_page() load page mapcount (==2) reuse = 0 pte unlock copy page to new_page pte lock page_remove_rmap(page); trylock_page() can_share_swap_page() load page mapcount (==1) reuse = 1 ptep_set_access_flags (allow W) write private key into page read from page ptep_clear_flush() set_pte_at(pte of new_page) Fix this by moving the page_remove_rmap of the old page after the pte clear and flush. Potentially the entire branch could be moved down here, but in order to stay consistent, I won't (should probably move all the *_mm_counter stuff with one patch). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c27
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 423e0e7c2f7..d14b251a25a 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1785,7 +1785,6 @@ gotten:
page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
if (likely(pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte))) {
if (old_page) {
- page_remove_rmap(old_page, vma);
if (!PageAnon(old_page)) {
dec_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);
inc_mm_counter(mm, anon_rss);
@@ -1807,6 +1806,32 @@ gotten:
lru_cache_add_active(new_page);
page_add_new_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, address);
+ if (old_page) {
+ /*
+ * Only after switching the pte to the new page may
+ * we remove the mapcount here. Otherwise another
+ * process may come and find the rmap count decremented
+ * before the pte is switched to the new page, and
+ * "reuse" the old page writing into it while our pte
+ * here still points into it and can be read by other
+ * threads.
+ *
+ * The critical issue is to order this
+ * page_remove_rmap with the ptp_clear_flush above.
+ * Those stores are ordered by (if nothing else,)
+ * the barrier present in the atomic_add_negative
+ * in page_remove_rmap.
+ *
+ * Then the TLB flush in ptep_clear_flush ensures that
+ * no process can access the old page before the
+ * decremented mapcount is visible. And the old page
+ * cannot be reused until after the decremented
+ * mapcount is visible. So transitively, TLBs to
+ * old page will be flushed before it can be reused.
+ */
+ page_remove_rmap(old_page, vma);
+ }
+
/* Free the old page.. */
new_page = old_page;
ret |= VM_FAULT_WRITE;