From: Peter Zijlstra Wrt. the recent modifications in do_wp_page() Hugh Dickins pointed out: "I now realize it's right to the first order (normal case) and to the second order (ptrace poke), but not to the third order (ptrace poke anon page here to be COWed - perhaps can't occur without intervening mprotects)." This patch restores the old COW behaviour for anonymous pages. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/memory.c | 19 +++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memory.c~mm-fixup-do_wp_page mm/memory.c --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-fixup-do_wp_page +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -1466,11 +1466,21 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct * goto gotten; /* - * Only catch write-faults on shared writable pages, read-only - * shared pages can get COWed by get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=1). + * Take out anonymous pages first, anonymous shared vmas are + * not dirty accountable. */ - if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == + if (PageAnon(old_page)) { + if (!TestSetPageLocked(old_page)) { + reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page); + unlock_page(old_page); + } + } else if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) { + /* + * Only catch write-faults on shared writable pages, + * read-only shared pages can get COWed by + * get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=1). + */ if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) { /* * Notify the address space that the page is about to @@ -1502,9 +1512,6 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct * dirty_page = old_page; get_page(dirty_page); reuse = 1; - } else if (PageAnon(old_page) && !TestSetPageLocked(old_page)) { - reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page); - unlock_page(old_page); } if (reuse) { _