Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Oct 2021 18:08:41 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm, thp: check page mapping when truncating page cache |
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On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:39:14AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 9:49 AM Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote: > > I assume you're thinking of one of the fuzzer blkdev ones: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CACkBjsbtF_peC7N_4mRfHML_BeiPe+O9DahTfr84puSG_J9rcQ@mail.gmail.com/ > > or > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACkBjsYwLYLRmX8GpsDpMthagWOjWWrNxqY6ZLNQVr6yx+f5vA@mail.gmail.com/ > > > > I haven't started on those ones yet: yes, I imagine one or both of those > > will need a further fix (S_ISREG() check somewhere if we're lucky; but > > could well be nastier); but for the bug in this thread, I expect > > Makes sense to me. We should be able to check S_ISREG() in khugepaged, > if it is not a regular file, just bail out. Sounds not that nasty to > me AFAIU.
I don't see why we should have an S_ISREG() check. I agree it's not the intended usecase, but it ought to work fine. Unless there's something I'm missing?
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