From: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: fix data loss when splitting a file pmd
__split_huge_pmd_locked() must check if the cleared huge pmd was dirty, and propagate that to PageDirty: otherwise, data may be lost when a huge tmpfs page is modified then split then reclaimed.
How has this taken so long to be noticed? Because there was no problem when the huge page is written by a write system call (shmem_write_end() calls set_page_dirty()), nor when the page is allocated for a write fault (fault_dirty_shared_page() calls set_page_dirty()); but when allocated for a read fault (which MAP_POPULATE simulates), no set_page_dirty().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1807111741430.1106@eggly.anvils Fixes: d21b9e57c74c ("thp: handle file pages in split_huge_pmd()") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Reported-by: Ashwin Chaugule ashwinch@google.com Reviewed-by: Yang Shi yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Cc: "Huang, Ying" ying.huang@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [4.8+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/huge_memory.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~thp-fix-data-loss-when-splitting-a-file-pmd mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~thp-fix-data-loss-when-splitting-a-file-pmd +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2084,6 +2084,8 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(stru if (vma_is_dax(vma)) return; page = pmd_page(_pmd); + if (!PageDirty(page) && pmd_dirty(_pmd)) + set_page_dirty(page); if (!PageReferenced(page) && pmd_young(_pmd)) SetPageReferenced(page); page_remove_rmap(page, true); _