From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mremap move ZERO_PAGE fix
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:30:43 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0509241127420.11579@goblin.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
Fix nasty little bug we've missed in Nick's mremap move ZERO_PAGE patch.
The "pte" at that point may be a swap entry or a pte_file entry: we must
check pte_present before perhaps corrupting such an entry.
Patch below against 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, but the same bug is in 2.6.14-rc2's
mm/mremap.c, and more dangerous there since it's affecting all arches:
I think the safest course is to send Nick's patch and Yoichi's build fix
and this fix (build tested) on to Linus - so only MIPS can be affected.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
--- 2.6.14-rc2-mm1/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h 2005-09-22 12:32:00.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h 2005-09-24 10:51:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -164,7 +164,8 @@ static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(st
#define move_pte(pte, prot, old_addr, new_addr) \
({ \
pte_t newpte = (pte); \
- if (pfn_valid(pte_pfn(pte)) && pte_page(pte) == ZERO_PAGE(old_addr)) \
+ if (pte_present(pte) && pfn_valid(pte_pfn(pte)) && \
+ pte_page(pte) == ZERO_PAGE(old_addr)) \
newpte = mk_pte(ZERO_PAGE(new_addr), (prot)); \
newpte; \
})
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2005-09-24 10:30 Hugh Dickins [this message]
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