From e6c509f85455041d3d7c4b863bf80bc294288cc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:33:19 -0700 Subject: mm: use clear_page_mlock() in page_remove_rmap() We had thought that pages could no longer get freed while still marked as mlocked; but Johannes Weiner posted this program to demonstrate that truncating an mlocked private file mapping containing COWed pages is still mishandled: #include #include #include #include #include #include #include int main(void) { char *map; int fd; system("grep mlockfreed /proc/vmstat"); fd = open("chigurh", O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_RDWR); unlink("chigurh"); ftruncate(fd, 4096); map = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); map[0] = 11; mlock(map, sizeof(fd)); ftruncate(fd, 0); close(fd); munlock(map, sizeof(fd)); munmap(map, 4096); system("grep mlockfreed /proc/vmstat"); return 0; } The anon COWed pages are not caught by truncation's clear_page_mlock() of the pagecache pages; but unmap_mapping_range() unmaps them, so we ought to look out for them there in page_remove_rmap(). Indeed, why should truncation or invalidation be doing the clear_page_mlock() when removing from pagecache? mlock is a property of mapping in userspace, not a property of pagecache: an mlocked unmapped page is nonsensical. Reported-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Ying Han Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/truncate.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/truncate.c') diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index f38055cb8af6..d51ce92d6e83 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page) cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); - clear_page_mlock(page); ClearPageMappedToDisk(page); delete_from_page_cache(page); return 0; @@ -132,7 +131,6 @@ invalidate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page) if (page_has_private(page) && !try_to_release_page(page, 0)) return 0; - clear_page_mlock(page); ret = remove_mapping(mapping, page); return ret; @@ -394,8 +392,6 @@ invalidate_complete_page2(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page) if (page_has_private(page) && !try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL)) return 0; - clear_page_mlock(page); - spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock); if (PageDirty(page)) goto failed; -- cgit v1.2.2