[PATCH 6/9] mm, hugetlb: do not use a page in page cache for cow optimization

[Joonsoo Kim]

Currently, we use a page with mapped count 1 in page cache for cow
optimization. If we find this condition, we don't allocate a new
page and copy contents. Instead, we map this page directly.
This may introduce a problem that writting to private mapping overwrite
hugetlb file directly. You can find this situation with following code.

        size = 20 * MB;
        flag = MAP_SHARED;
        p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
                return -1;
        }
        p[0] = 's';
        fprintf(stdout, "BEFORE STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]);
        munmap(p, size);

        flag = MAP_PRIVATE;
        p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        }
        p[0] = 'c';
        munmap(p, size);

        flag = MAP_SHARED;
        p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
                return -1;
        }
        fprintf(stdout, "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]);
        munmap(p, size);

We can see that "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: c", not "AFTER STEAL
PRIVATE WRITE: s". If we turn off this optimization to a page
in page cache, the problem is disappeared.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index d4a1695..6c1eb9b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2512,7 +2512,6 @@ static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 {
 	struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
 	struct page *old_page, *new_page;
-	int avoidcopy;
 	int outside_reserve = 0;
 	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */
 	unsigned long mmun_end;		/* For mmu_notifiers */
@@ -2522,10 +2521,8 @@ static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 retry_avoidcopy:
 	/* If no-one else is actually using this page, avoid the copy
 	 * and just make the page writable */
-	avoidcopy = (page_mapcount(old_page) == 1);
-	if (avoidcopy) {
-		if (PageAnon(old_page))
-			page_move_anon_rmap(old_page, vma, address);
+	if (page_mapcount(old_page) == 1 && PageAnon(old_page)) {
+		page_move_anon_rmap(old_page, vma, address);
 		set_huge_ptep_writable(vma, address, ptep);
 		return 0;
 	}
-- 
1.7.9.5

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