From 4ce072f1faf29d24df4600f53db8cdd62d400a8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Siddha, Suresh B" Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:58:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix a race condition under SMC + COW Failing context is a multi threaded process context and the failing sequence is as follows. One thread T0 doing self modifying code on page X on processor P0 and another thread T1 doing COW (breaking the COW setup as part of just happened fork() in another thread T2) on the same page X on processor P1. T0 doing SMC can endup modifying the new page Y (allocated by the T1 doing COW on P1) but because of different I/D TLB's, P0 ITLB will not see the new mapping till the flush TLB IPI from P1 is received. During this interval, if T0 executes the code created by SMC it can result in an app error (as ITLB still points to old page X and endup executing the content in page X rather than using the content in page Y). Fix this issue by first clearing the PTE and flushing it, before updating it with new entry. Hugh sayeth: I was a bit sceptical, in the habit of thinking that Self Modifying Code must look such issues itself: but I guess there's nothing it can do to avoid this one. Fair enough, what you're changing it to is pretty much what powerpc and s390 were already doing, and is a more robust way of proceeding, consistent with how ptes are set everywhere else. The ptep_clear_flush is a bit heavy-handed (it's anxious to return the pte that was atomically cleared), but we'd have to wander through lots of arches to get the right minimal behaviour. It'd also be nice to eliminate ptep_establish completely, now only used to define other macros/inlines: it always seemed obfuscation to me, what you've got there now is clearer. Let's put those cleanups on a TODO list. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Acked-by: "David S. Miller" Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memory.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 601159a46ab6..160f5b503ead 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1577,7 +1577,14 @@ gotten: entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot); entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma); lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry); - ptep_establish(vma, address, page_table, entry); + /* + * Clear the pte entry and flush it first, before updating the + * pte with the new entry. This will avoid a race condition + * seen in the presence of one thread doing SMC and another + * thread doing COW. + */ + ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, page_table); + set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, entry); update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry); lru_cache_add_active(new_page); page_add_new_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, address); -- cgit v1.2.2