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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2011-02-23 21:39:49 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-03-14 14:29:55 -0700
commite466d3b572bf868fe9a5d9688d8d2ec19cddb46f (patch)
tree08a0f0f244adaa52f72f11bc95d7a31e5b4f8bbc /mm
parentd7a0289987f9fda051854f5201d77f4ce7095036 (diff)
mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG
commit a3e8cc643d22d2c8ed36b9be7d9c9ca21efcf7f7 upstream. Robert Swiecki reported a BUG_ON(page_mapped) from a fuzzer, punching a hole with madvise(,, MADV_REMOVE). That path is under mutex, and cannot be explained by lack of serialization in unmap_mapping_range(). Reviewing the code, I found one place where vm_truncate_count handling should have been updated, when I switched at the last minute from one way of managing the restart_addr to another: mremap move changes the virtual addresses, so it ought to adjust the restart_addr. But rather than exporting the notion of restart_addr from memory.c, or converting to restart_pgoff throughout, simply reset vm_truncate_count to 0 to force a rescan if mremap move races with preempted truncation. We have no confirmation that this fixes Robert's BUG, but it is a fix that's worth making anyway. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kerin Millar <kerframil@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mremap.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 845190898d5..166b824c206 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -92,9 +92,7 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *old_pmd,
*/
mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
- if (new_vma->vm_truncate_count &&
- new_vma->vm_truncate_count != vma->vm_truncate_count)
- new_vma->vm_truncate_count = 0;
+ new_vma->vm_truncate_count = 0;
}
/*