mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:39:49 +0000 (21:39 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:55:06 +0000 (21:55 -0800)
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>
mm/mremap.c

index 9925b6391b8035a547355a8ad9919e9a8f06f920..1de98d492ddcd7adde4508bc3af3b5fcb6a465fe 100644 (file)
@@ -94,9 +94,7 @@ 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;
        }
 
        /*