Gerd reports that ->i_mode may contain other bits besides S_IFCHR. Use
S_ISCHR() instead. Otherwise, get_user_pages_longterm() may fail on
device-dax instances when those are meant to be explicitly allowed.
Fixes: 2bb6d2837083 ("mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Gerd Rausch <gerd.rausch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 2a815560fda0..79c413985305 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3198,7 +3198,7 @@ static inline bool vma_is_fsdax(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
if (!vma_is_dax(vma))
return false;
inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
- if (inode->i_mode == S_IFCHR)
+ if (S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode))
return false; /* device-dax */
return true;
}
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