dax: ensure that zero pages are removed from other processes

If the first access to a huge page was a store, there would be no existing zero pmd in this process's page tables. There could be a zero pmd in another process's page tables, if it had done a load. We can detect this case by noticing that the buffer_head returned from the filesystem is New, and ensure that other processes mapping this huge page have their page tables flushed. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
cail · Sep 8, 2015 · 73a6ec4 · 73a6ec4
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commit 73a6ec4
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diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
@@ -568,7 +568,11 @@ int __dax_pmd_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 	if ((pgoff | PG_PMD_COLOUR) >= size)
 		goto fallback;
 
-	if (is_huge_zero_pmd(*pmd))
+	/*
+	 * If we allocated new storage, make sure no process has any
+	 * zero pages covering this hole
+	 */
+	if (buffer_new(&bh))
 		unmap_mapping_range(mapping, pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT, PMD_SIZE, 0);
 
 	if (!write && !buffer_mapped(&bh) && buffer_uptodate(&bh)) {