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authorJan Kara <[email protected]>2017-02-08 14:30:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2017-02-08 15:41:43 -0800
commit0911d0041c22922228ca52a977d7b0b0159fee4b (patch)
treeecd0e2bd3ec2f1e934409a43dd3b0798860c7d8b /lib/test-string_helpers.c
parented5bd7dc88edf4a4a9c67130742b1b59aa017a5f (diff)
mm: avoid returning VM_FAULT_RETRY from ->page_mkwrite handlers
Some ->page_mkwrite handlers may return VM_FAULT_RETRY as its return code (GFS2 or Lustre can definitely do this). However VM_FAULT_RETRY from ->page_mkwrite is completely unhandled by the mm code and results in locking and writeably mapping the page which definitely is not what the caller wanted. Fix Lustre and block_page_mkwrite_ret() used by other filesystems (notably GFS2) to return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE instead which results in bailing out from the fault code, the CPU then retries the access, and we fault again effectively doing what the handler wanted. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Reported-by: Al Viro <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jinshan Xiong <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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