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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2015-11-17 01:07:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2015-12-08 22:41:36 -0500 |
| commit | 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 (patch) | |
| tree | a26c29e3fbb766f00b023724e9e5b8b9bba9b879 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | aa80deab33a8fb180e718f5e45514db19aade165 (diff) | |
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don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem
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.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index f24d1b833957..3eb7c35c9698 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -504,3 +504,8 @@ in your dentry operations instead. [mandatory] __fd_install() & fd_install() can now sleep. Callers should not hold a spinlock or other resources that do not allow a schedule. +-- +[mandatory] + any symlink that might use page_follow_link_light/page_put_link() must + have inode_nohighmem(inode) called before anything might start playing with + its pagecache. |