On 10/30/23 11:05, Christian Brauner wrote:
@Paolo and @Sean, does that make sense and is the series for v6.7 or
just already in -next for v6.8?
It's for 6.8. Thanks for the fixup!
Paolo
diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
index 94bc478c26f3..a4c194b0b22c 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
@@ -272,17 +272,7 @@ static int kvm_gmem_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
static struct file *kvm_gmem_get_file(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
{
- struct file *file;
-
- rcu_read_lock();
-
- file = rcu_dereference(slot->gmem.file);
- if (file && !get_file_rcu(file))
- file = NULL;
-
- rcu_read_unlock();
-
- return file;
+ return get_file_active(&slot->gmem.file);
}
static struct file_operations kvm_gmem_fops = {
