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authorKen Chen <kenchen@google.com>2007-02-08 14:20:27 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-03-09 10:50:30 -0800
commit858965e60c118050c4cd25a34e78560b839ad675 (patch)
tree74844a34385ff7ab054c2eba9fb9a6601d5b01ef /arch
parentee3b6b5324ad82788fb051fac4765a7e6835b454 (diff)
hugetlb: preserve hugetlb pte dirty state
__unmap_hugepage_range() is buggy that it does not preserve dirty state of huge_pte when unmapping hugepage range. It causes data corruption in the event of dop_caches being used by sys admin. For example, an application creates a hugetlb file, modify pages, then unmap it. While leaving the hugetlb file alive, comes along sys admin doing a "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches". drop_pagecache_sb() will happily free all pages that aren't marked dirty if there are no active mapping. Later when application remaps the hugetlb file back and all data are gone, triggering catastrophic flip over on application. Not only that, the internal resv_huge_pages count will also get all messed up. Fix it up by marking page dirty appropriately. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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