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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: avoid corrupting page->mapping in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte
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On 2022/7/13 1:39, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 07/12/22 21:05, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> In MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE case with a non-shared VMA, pages in the page
>> cache are installed in the ptes. But hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap is called
>> for them mistakenly because they're not vm_shared. This will corrupt the
>> page->mapping used by page cache code.
>>
>> Fixes: f619147104c8 ("userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE ioctl")
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> This looks correct to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>

Many thanks for review.

>
> However, I am having a hard time wrapping my head around how UFFDIO_CONTINUE
> should work on non-anon private mappings. For example, a private mapping of
> a hugetlbfs file. I think we just map the page in the file/cache and do not
> set the write bit in the pte. So, yes we would want page_dup_file_rmap()
> in this case as shown below.

+1

>
> Adding Axel and Peter on Cc: as they were more involved in adding that code
> and the design of UFFDIO_CONTINUE.

That would be really helpful.

Thanks.

>

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