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| author | Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> | 2017-01-10 16:57:24 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-01-10 18:31:54 -0800 |
| commit | f729c8c9b24f0540a6e6b86e68f3888ba90ef7e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 8dd956224ce2b958954c5bfe0b7cf1809299dce6 /include/linux | |
| parent | 097963959594c5eccaba42510f7033f703211bda (diff) | |
dax: wrprotect pmd_t in dax_mapping_entry_mkclean
Currently dax_mapping_entry_mkclean() fails to clean and write protect
the pmd_t of a DAX PMD entry during an *sync operation. This can result
in data loss in the following sequence:
1) mmap write to DAX PMD, dirtying PMD radix tree entry and making the
pmd_t dirty and writeable
2) fsync, flushing out PMD data and cleaning the radix tree entry. We
currently fail to mark the pmd_t as clean and write protected.
3) more mmap writes to the PMD. These don't cause any page faults since
the pmd_t is dirty and writeable. The radix tree entry remains clean.
4) fsync, which fails to flush the dirty PMD data because the radix tree
entry was clean.
5) crash - dirty data that should have been fsync'd as part of 4) could
still have been in the processor cache, and is lost.
Fix this by marking the pmd_t clean and write protected in
dax_mapping_entry_mkclean(), which is called as part of the fsync
operation 2). This will cause the writes in step 3) above to generate
page faults where we'll re-dirty the PMD radix tree entry, resulting in
flushes in the fsync that happens in step 4).
Fixes: 4b4bb46d00b3 ("dax: clear dirty entry tags on cache flush")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482272586-21177-3-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 02793ac64ac6..b84615b0f64c 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1210,8 +1210,6 @@ int copy_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src, struct vm_area_struct *vma); void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t const holebegin, loff_t const holelen, int even_cows); -int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, pte_t **ptepp, - spinlock_t **ptlp); int follow_pte_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, pte_t **ptepp, pmd_t **pmdpp, spinlock_t **ptlp); int follow_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, |