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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 3f4e660144 block: Remove special-casing of compound pages
commit 1b151e2435fc3a9b10c8946c6aebe9f3e1938c55 upstream.

The special casing was originally added in pre-git history; reproducing
the commit log here:

> commit a318a92567d77
> Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Date:   Sun Sep 21 01:42:22 2003 -0700
>
>     [PATCH] Speed up direct-io hugetlbpage handling
>
>     This patch short-circuits all the direct-io page dirtying logic for
>     higher-order pages.  Without this, we pointlessly bounce BIOs up to
>     keventd all the time.

In the last twenty years, compound pages have become used for more than
just hugetlb.  Rewrite these functions to operate on folios instead
of pages and remove the special case for hugetlbfs; I don't think
it's needed any more (and if it is, we can put it back in as a call
to folio_test_hugetlb()).

This was found by inspection; as far as I can tell, this bug can lead
to pages used as the destination of a direct I/O read not being marked
as dirty.  If those pages are then reclaimed by the MM without being
dirtied for some other reason, they won't be written out.  Then when
they're faulted back in, they will not contain the data they should.
It'll take a pretty unusual setup to produce this problem with several
races all going the wrong way.

This problem predates the folio work; it could for example have been
triggered by mmaping a THP in tmpfs and using that as the target of an
O_DIRECT read.

Fixes: 800d8c63b2 ("shmem: add huge pages support")
Cc:  <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-02-23 08:24:49 +01:00
arch arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845: fix USB wakeup interrupt types 2024-02-23 08:24:48 +01:00
block block: Remove special-casing of compound pages 2024-02-23 08:24:49 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: api - Disallow identical driver names 2024-02-23 08:24:48 +01:00
Documentation rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories 2024-02-23 08:24:49 +01:00
drivers nouveau/vmm: don't set addr on the fail path to avoid warning 2024-02-23 08:24:49 +01:00
fs rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories 2024-02-23 08:24:49 +01:00
include spi: introduce SPI_MODE_X_MASK macro 2024-02-23 08:24:48 +01:00
init rootfs: Fix support for rootfstype= when root= is given 2024-01-25 14:34:30 -08:00
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kernel PM: hibernate: Enforce ordering during image compression/decompression 2024-02-23 08:24:48 +01:00
lib ida: Fix crash in ida_free when the bitmap is empty 2024-01-25 14:34:21 -08:00
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mm mm: fix unmap_mapping_range high bits shift bug 2024-01-15 18:25:28 +01:00
net ipvs: avoid stat macros calls from preemptible context 2024-01-25 14:34:32 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix buffer overflow in tcp_basertt 2023-07-27 08:37:07 +02:00
scripts sign-file: Fix incorrect return values check 2023-12-20 15:41:17 +01:00
security apparmor: avoid crash when parsed profile name is empty 2024-01-25 14:34:31 -08:00
sound ALSA: oxygen: Fix right channel of capture volume mixer 2024-01-25 14:34:30 -08:00
tools perf top: Skip side-band event setup if HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT is not set 2024-01-25 14:34:33 -08:00
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virt KVM: Destroy target device if coalesced MMIO unregistration fails 2023-03-11 16:44:01 +01:00
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