fix tmpfs BUG and AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
commit487e9bf25cbae11b131d6a14bdbb3a6a77380837
authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:37:20 +0000 (29 14:37 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:06:55 +0000 (30 08:06 -0700)
tree0b6666750274aadd22b29b1282aa779831976ca1
parent8bca44bbd39007065cc6a4e3a50201475629a6cf
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>
mm/shmem.c