[to-be-updated] mm-userfaultfd-fix-uffdio_continue-on-fallocated-shmem-pages.patch removed from -mm tree

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: userfaultfd: fix UFFDIO_CONTINUE on fallocated shmem pages
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-userfaultfd-fix-uffdio_continue-on-fallocated-shmem-pages.patch

This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged

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From: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: userfaultfd: fix UFFDIO_CONTINUE on fallocated shmem pages
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 13:57:41 -0700

When fallocate() is used on a shmem file, the pages we allocate can end up
with !PageUptodate.

Since UFFDIO_CONTINUE tries to find the existing page the user wants to
map with SGP_READ, we would fail to find such a page, since
shmem_getpage_gfp returns with a "NULL" pagep for SGP_READ if it discovers
!PageUptodate.  As a result, UFFDIO_CONTINUE returns -EFAULT, as it would
do if the page wasn't found in the page cache at all.

This isn't the intended behavior.  UFFDIO_CONTINUE is just trying to find
if a page exists, and doesn't care whether it still needs to be cleared or
not.  So, instead of SGP_READ, pass in SGP_NOALLOC.  This is the same,
except for one critical difference: in the !PageUptodate case, SGP_NOALLOC
will clear the page and then return it.  With this change, UFFDIO_CONTINUE
works properly (succeeds) on a shmem file which has been fallocated, but
otherwise not modified.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220603205741.12888-1-axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 153132571f02 ("userfaultfd/shmem: support UFFDIO_CONTINUE for shmem")
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/userfaultfd.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c~mm-userfaultfd-fix-uffdio_continue-on-fallocated-shmem-pages
+++ a/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static int mcontinue_atomic_pte(struct m
 	struct page *page;
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = shmem_getpage(inode, pgoff, &page, SGP_READ);
+	ret = shmem_getpage(inode, pgoff, &page, SGP_NOALLOC);
 	if (ret)
 		goto out;
 	if (!page) {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx are





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