Commit ab967d86 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: wp lock page before deciding cow

An application may rely on get_user_pages() to give it pages writable from
userspace and shared with a driver, GUP breaking COW if necessary.  It may
mprotect() the pages' writability, off and on, from time to time.

Normally this works fine (so long as the app does not fork); but just
occasionally, under memory pressure, a readonly pte in a newly writable
area is COWed unnecessarily, breaking the link with the driver: because
do_wp_page() does trylock_page, and falls back to COW whenever that fails.

For reliable behaviour in the unshared case, when the trylock_page fails,
now unlock pagetable, lock page and relock pagetable, before deciding
whether Copy-On-Write is really necessary.

Reported-by: Zhou Yingchao
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 878b63ac
......@@ -1848,10 +1848,21 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* not dirty accountable.
*/
if (PageAnon(old_page)) {
if (trylock_page(old_page)) {
reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page);
unlock_page(old_page);
if (!trylock_page(old_page)) {
page_cache_get(old_page);
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
lock_page(old_page);
page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address,
&ptl);
if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte)) {
unlock_page(old_page);
page_cache_release(old_page);
goto unlock;
}
page_cache_release(old_page);
}
reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page);
unlock_page(old_page);
} else if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) ==
(VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) {
/*
......
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