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mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
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A migration entry is marked as write if pte_write was true at the time the
entry was created. The VMA protections are not double checked when migration
entries are being removed as mprotect marks write-migration-entries as
read. It means that potentially we take a spurious fault to mark PTEs write
again but it's straight-forward. However, there is a race between write
migrations being marked read and migrations finishing. This potentially
allows a PTE to be write that should have been read. Close this race by
double checking the VMA permissions using maybe_mkwrite when migration
completes.

[torvalds@linux-foundation.org: use maybe_mkwrite]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 2, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -146,8 +146,11 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct page *new, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pte = pte_mkold(mk_pte(new, vma->vm_page_prot));
if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(*ptep))
pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);

/* Recheck VMA as permissions can change since migration started */
if (is_write_migration_entry(entry))
pte = pte_mkwrite(pte);
pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte, vma);

#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
if (PageHuge(new)) {
pte = pte_mkhuge(pte);
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