| Message ID | 1391606155-2091-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com |
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| State | New |
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diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h index f4843e0..4e700b1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h @@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ /* Set of bits not changed in pte_modify */ #define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT | \ - _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY) + _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY | \ + _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY) #define _HPAGE_CHG_MASK (_PAGE_CHG_MASK | _PAGE_PSE) #define _PAGE_CACHE_MASK (_PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled mm: don't lose the SOFT_DIRTY flag on mprotect to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From 6dfcea8496bc5a287545f04f339dbe325b391687 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:46:10 -0800 Subject: mm: don't lose the SOFT_DIRTY flag on mprotect commit 24f91eba18bbfdb27e71a1aae5b3a61b67fcd091 upstream. The SOFT_DIRTY bit shows that the content of memory was changed after a defined point in the past. mprotect() doesn't change the content of memory, so it must not change the SOFT_DIRTY bit. This bug causes a malfunction: on the first iteration all pages are dumped. On other iterations only pages with the SOFT_DIRTY bit are dumped. So if the SOFT_DIRTY bit is cleared from a page by mistake, the page is not dumped and its content will be restored incorrectly. This patch does nothing with _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY, becase pte_modify() is called only for present pages. Fixes commit 0f8975ec4db2 ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking"). Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.8.3.2