From 4e31635c367a9e21a43cfbfae4c9deda2e19d1f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:49:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ksm: fix bad user data when swapping Building under memory pressure, with KSM on 2.6.36-rc5, collapsed with an internal compiler error: typically indicating an error in swapping. Perhaps there's a timing issue which makes it now more likely, perhaps it's just a long time since I tried for so long: this bug goes back to KSM swapping in 2.6.33. Notice how reuse_swap_page() allows an exclusive page to be reused, but only does SetPageDirty if it can delete it from swap cache right then - if it's currently under Writeback, it has to be left in cache and we don't SetPageDirty, but the page can be reused. Fine, the dirty bit will get set in the pte; but notice how zap_pte_range() does not bother to transfer pte_dirty to page_dirty when unmapping a PageAnon. If KSM chooses to share such a page, it will look like a clean copy of swapcache, and not be written out to swap when its memory is needed; then stale data read back from swap when it's needed again. We could fix this in reuse_swap_page() (or even refuse to reuse a page under writeback), but it's more honest to fix my oversight in KSM's write_protect_page(). Several days of testing on three machines confirms that this fixes the issue they showed. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/ksm.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index b1873cf..65ab5c7 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static int write_protect_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, if (!ptep) goto out; - if (pte_write(*ptep)) { + if (pte_write(*ptep) || pte_dirty(*ptep)) { pte_t entry; swapped = PageSwapCache(page); @@ -735,7 +735,9 @@ static int write_protect_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, entry); goto out_unlock; } - entry = pte_wrprotect(entry); + if (pte_dirty(entry)) + set_page_dirty(page); + entry = pte_mkclean(pte_wrprotect(entry)); set_pte_at_notify(mm, addr, ptep, entry); } *orig_pte = *ptep; -- 2.7.4