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Commit f8005451 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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tmpfs: change shmem_mapping() to test shmem_aops



Callers of shmem_mapping() are interested in whether the mapping is swap
backed - except for uprobes, which is interested in whether it should
use shmem_read_mapping_page().  All these callers are better served by a
shmem_mapping() which checks for shmem_aops, than the current version
which goes through several indirections to find where the inode lives -
and has the surprising effect that a private mmap of /dev/zero satisfies
both vma_is_anonymous() and shmem_mapping(), when that device node is on
devtmpfs.  I don't think anything in the tree suffers from that
surprise, but it caught me out, and is better fixed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1612052148530.13021@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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