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Patch series "userfaultfd: minor bug fixes". Three unrelated bug fixes. The first two addresses possible issues (not too theoretical ones), but I did not encounter them in practice. The third patch addresses a test bug that causes the test to fail on my system. It has been sent before as part of a bigger RFC. This patch (of 3): mmap_changing is currently a boolean variable, which is set and cleared without any lock that protects against concurrent modifications. mmap_changing is supposed to mark whether userfaultfd page-faults handling should be retried since mappings are undergoing a change. However, concurrent calls, for instance to madvise(MADV_DONTNEED), might cause mmap_changing to be false, although the remove event was still not read (hence acknowledged) by the user. Change mmap_changing to atomic_t and increase/decrease appropriately. Add a debug assertion to see whether mmap_changing is negative. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808020724.1022515-1-namit@vmware.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808020724.1022515-2-namit@vmware.com Fixes: df2cc96e77011 ("userfaultfd: prevent non-cooperative events vs mcopy_atomic races") Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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