From: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] hugetlb: follow_hugetlb_page for write access
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:51:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107195142.13505.49398.stgit@kernel> (raw)
When calling get_user_pages(), a write flag is passed in by the caller to
indicate if write access is required on the faulted-in pages. Currently,
follow_hugetlb_page() ignores this flag and always faults pages for
read-only access. This can cause data corruption because a device driver
that calls get_user_pages() with write set will not expect COW faults to
occur on the returned pages.
This patch passes the write flag down to follow_hugetlb_page() and makes
sure hugetlb_fault() is called with the right write_access parameter.
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 2 +-
mm/hugetlb.c | 5 +++--
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 3a19b03..31fa0a0 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ static inline int is_vm_hugetlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
int hugetlb_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
int hugetlb_treat_movable_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *, struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *);
-int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *, struct page **, struct vm_area_struct **, unsigned long *, int *, int);
+int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *, struct vm_area_struct *, struct page **, struct vm_area_struct **, unsigned long *, int *, int, int);
void unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, unsigned long);
void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int hugetlb_prefault(struct address_space *, struct vm_area_struct *);
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index eab8c42..b645985 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -621,7 +621,8 @@ int hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas,
- unsigned long *position, int *length, int i)
+ unsigned long *position, int *length, int i,
+ int write)
{
unsigned long pfn_offset;
unsigned long vaddr = *position;
@@ -643,7 +644,7 @@ int follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
int ret;
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
- ret = hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, vaddr, 0);
+ ret = hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, vaddr, write);
spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
if (!(ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR))
continue;
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f82b359..1bcd444 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1039,7 +1039,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
i = follow_hugetlb_page(mm, vma, pages, vmas,
- &start, &len, i);
+ &start, &len, i, write);
continue;
}
next reply other threads:[~2007-11-07 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-07 19:51 Adam Litke [this message]
2007-11-08 20:43 ` [PATCH] hugetlb: follow_hugetlb_page for write access Ken Chen
2007-11-19 15:25 ` Hoang-Nam Nguyen
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