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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.4 035/108] dont put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem
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On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 16:16 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
>
> commit 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 upstream.
>
> kmap() in page_follow_link_light() needed to go - allowing to hold
> an arbitrary number of kmaps for long is a great way to deadlocking
> the system.
>
> new helper (inode_nohighmem(inode)) needs to be used for pagecache
> symlinks inodes; done for all in-tree cases.  page_follow_link_light()
> instrumented to yell about anything missed.

Except that this backport only updates ext4 and f2fs (and doesn't add
the warning). I suppose that's all matters for Android, but it would
be nice to get a more complete backport into 4.4-stable...

Ben.

> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Jin Qian <jinqian@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jin Qian <jinqian@android.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[...]

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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.

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