Re: [PATCH] mm: Don't forget to set softdirty on file mapped fault

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 02:05:01PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > In case if page fault happend on dirty filemapping the newly created pte
> > may loose softdirty bit thus if a userspace program is tracking memory
> > changes with help of a memory tracker (CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY) it might
> > miss modification of a memory page (which in worts case may lead to
> > data inconsistency).
> 
> Much better, thanks.
> 
> It's a rather gross-looking bug and data inconsistency sounds serious. 
> Do you think a -stable backport is needed?

It seems the memory tracker is not that widespread in userspace
programs (I mean at the moment as far as I know only we use it
intensively) so I don't consider it as critical but moving it
into stable won't hurt. Still I fear in 3.16 the mm/memory.c
code has been significantly reworked so this patch won't apply
on its own. I can prepare a patch for 3.15 though, just say
a word.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/