mm/memory.c: use entry = ACCESS_ONCE(*pte) in handle_pte_fault()
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:35:35 +0000 (19:35 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:52:06 +0000 (11:52 +0200)
commit c0d73261f5c1355a35b8b40e871d31578ce0c044 upstream.

Use ACCESS_ONCE() in handle_pte_fault() when getting the entry or
orig_pte upon which all subsequent decisions and pte_same() tests will
be made.

I have no evidence that its lack is responsible for the mm/filemap.c:202
BUG_ON(page_mapped(page)) in __delete_from_page_cache() found by
trinity, and I am not optimistic that it will fix it.  But I have found
no other explanation, and ACCESS_ONCE() here will surely not hurt.

If gcc does re-access the pte before passing it down, then that would be
disastrous for correct page fault handling, and certainly could explain
the page_mapped() BUGs seen (concurrent fault causing page to be mapped
in a second time on top of itself: mapcount 2 for a single pte).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
mm/memory.c

index 99fe3aa1035c49ce9011f9c9fb462ff72d6e7a2b..b870c9c5c89b2ba9dde0d10f877b1079b1fd7c2c 100644 (file)
@@ -3698,7 +3698,7 @@ static int handle_pte_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
        pte_t entry;
        spinlock_t *ptl;
 
-       entry = *pte;
+       entry = ACCESS_ONCE(*pte);
        if (!pte_present(entry)) {
                if (pte_none(entry)) {
                        if (vma->vm_ops) {