This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dax: fix vma_is_fsdax() helper
to the 4.9-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:
dax-fix-vma_is_fsdax-helper.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 230f5a8969d8345fc9bbe3683f068246cf1be4b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:08:01 -0800
Subject: dax: fix vma_is_fsdax() helper
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 230f5a8969d8345fc9bbe3683f068246cf1be4b8 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3048,7 +3048,7 @@ static inline bool vma_is_fsdax(struct v
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;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/dax-fix-vma_is_fsdax-helper.patch