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Revision d3cb8bf6081b8b7a2dabb1264fe968fd870fa595 authored by Mel Gorman on 02 October 2014, 18:47:41 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 02 October 2014, 18:57:18 UTC 
mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
 
A migration entry is marked as write if pte_write was true at the time the
entry was created. The VMA protections are not double checked when migration
entries are being removed as mprotect marks write-migration-entries as
read. It means that potentially we take a spurious fault to mark PTEs write
again but it's straight-forward. However, there is a race between write
migrations being marked read and migrations finishing. This potentially
allows a PTE to be write that should have been read. Close this race by
double checking the VMA permissions using maybe_mkwrite when migration
completes.

[torvalds@linux-foundation.org: use maybe_mkwrite]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: d3cb8bf6081b8b7a2dabb1264fe968fd870fa595 authored by Mel Gorman on 02 October 2014, 18:47:41 UTC
mm: migrate: Close race between migration completion and mprotect
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