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    mm: gup persist for write permission · 878b63ac
    Hugh Dickins authored
    
    
    do_wp_page()'s VM_FAULT_WRITE return value tells __get_user_pages() that
    COW has been done if necessary, though it may be leaving the pte without
    write permission - for the odd case of forced writing to a readonly vma
    for ptrace.  At present GUP then retries the follow_page() without asking
    for write permission, to escape an endless loop when forced.
    
    But an application may be relying on GUP to guarantee a writable page
    which won't be COWed again when written from userspace, whereas a race
    here might leave a readonly pte in place?  Change the VM_FAULT_WRITE
    handling to ask follow_page() for write permission again, except in that
    odd case of forced writing to a readonly vma.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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