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author | Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> | 2014-01-30 15:46:10 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-30 16:56:56 -0800 |
commit | 24f91eba18bbfdb27e71a1aae5b3a61b67fcd091 (patch) | |
tree | 0d2f8a9cf99676eca52508f35de928138c929030 /Documentation | |
parent | a03208652dad18232e9ec3432df69f9c19c856ec (diff) |
mm: don't lose the SOFT_DIRTY flag on mprotect
The SOFT_DIRTY bit shows that the content of memory was changed after a
defined point in the past. mprotect() doesn't change the content of
memory, so it must not change the SOFT_DIRTY bit.
This bug causes a malfunction: on the first iteration all pages are
dumped. On other iterations only pages with the SOFT_DIRTY bit are
dumped. So if the SOFT_DIRTY bit is cleared from a page by mistake, the
page is not dumped and its content will be restored incorrectly.
This patch does nothing with _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY, becase pte_modify()
is called only for present pages.
Fixes commit 0f8975ec4db2 ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes
tracking").
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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