This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: filemap: fix mapping->nrpages double accounting in fuse
to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-filemap-fix-mapping-nrpages-double-accounting-in-fuse.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3ddf40e8c31964b744ff10abb48c8e36a83ec6e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 16:58:06 +0200
Subject: mm: filemap: fix mapping->nrpages double accounting in fuse
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3ddf40e8c31964b744ff10abb48c8e36a83ec6e7 upstream.
Commit 22f2ac51b6d6 ("mm: workingset: fix crash in shadow node shrinker
caused by replace_page_cache_page()") switched replace_page_cache() from
raw radix tree operations to page_cache_tree_insert() but didn't take
into account that the latter function, unlike the raw radix tree op,
handles mapping->nrpages. As a result, that counter is bumped for each
page replacement rather than balanced out even.
The mapping->nrpages counter is used to skip needless radix tree walks
when invalidating, truncating, syncing inodes without pages, as well as
statistics for userspace. Since the error is positive, we'll do more
page cache tree walks than necessary; we won't miss a necessary one.
And we'll report more buffer pages to userspace than there are. The
error is limited to fuse inodes.
Fixes: 22f2ac51b6d6 ("mm: workingset: fix crash in shadow node shrinker caused by replace_page_cache_page()")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -619,7 +619,6 @@ int replace_page_cache_page(struct page
__delete_from_page_cache(old, NULL);
error = page_cache_tree_insert(mapping, new, NULL);
BUG_ON(error);
- mapping->nrpages++;
/*
* hugetlb pages do not participate in page cache accounting.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/mm-filemap-fix-mapping-nrpages-double-accounting-in-fuse.patch
queue-4.8/mm-filemap-don-t-plant-shadow-entries-without-radix-tree-node.patch
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