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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2007-10-29 14:37:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-30 08:06:55 -0700
commit487e9bf25cbae11b131d6a14bdbb3a6a77380837 (patch)
tree0b6666750274aadd22b29b1282aa779831976ca1 /mm
parent8bca44bbd39007065cc6a4e3a50201475629a6cf (diff)
fix tmpfs BUG and AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
It's possible to provoke unionfs (not yet in mainline, though in mm and some distros) to hit shmem_writepage's BUG_ON(page_mapped(page)). I expect it's possible to provoke the 2.6.23 ecryptfs in the same way (but the 2.6.24 ecryptfs no longer calls lower level's ->writepage). This came to light with the recent find that AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE could leak from tmpfs via write_cache_pages and unionfs to userspace. There's already a fix (e423003028183df54f039dfda8b58c49e78c89d7 - writeback: don't propagate AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE) in the tree for that, and it's okay so far as it goes; but insufficient because it doesn't address the underlying issue, that shmem_writepage expects to be called only by vmscan (relying on backing_dev_info capabilities to prevent the normal writeback path from ever approaching it). That's an increasingly fragile assumption, and ramdisk_writepage (the other source of AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATEs) is already careful to check wbc->for_reclaim before returning it. Make the same check in shmem_writepage, thereby sidestepping the page_mapped BUG also. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/shmem.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 404e53bb212..253d205914b 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -915,6 +915,21 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
struct inode *inode;
BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+ /*
+ * shmem_backing_dev_info's capabilities prevent regular writeback or
+ * sync from ever calling shmem_writepage; but a stacking filesystem
+ * may use the ->writepage of its underlying filesystem, in which case
+ * we want to do nothing when that underlying filesystem is tmpfs
+ * (writing out to swap is useful as a response to memory pressure, but
+ * of no use to stabilize the data) - just redirty the page, unlock it
+ * and claim success in this case. AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE, and the
+ * page_mapped check below, must be avoided unless we're in reclaim.
+ */
+ if (!wbc->for_reclaim) {
+ set_page_dirty(page);
+ unlock_page(page);
+ return 0;
+ }
BUG_ON(page_mapped(page));
mapping = page->mapping;