From 21fc61c73c3903c4c312d0802da01ec2b323d174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 01:07:57 -0500 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3