From d3cb8bf6081b8b7a2dabb1264fe968fd870fa595 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 19:47:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect 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 Acked-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/migrate.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index f78ec9b..2740360 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -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); -- 2.7.4