mm: shmem_zero_setup skip security check and lockdep conflict with XFS
It appears that, at some point last year, XFS made directory handling changes which bring it into lockdep conflict with shmem_zero_setup(): it is surprising that mmap() can clone an inode while holding mmap_sem, but that has been so for many years. Since those few lockdep traces that I've seen all implicated selinux, I'm hoping that we can use the __shmem_file_setup(,,,S_PRIVATE) which v3.13's commit c7277090 ("security: shmem: implement kernel private shmem inodes") introduced to avoid LSM checks on kernel-internal inodes: the mmap("/dev/zero") cloned inode is indeed a kernel-internal detail. This also covers the !CONFIG_SHMEM use of ramfs to support /dev/zero (and MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS). I thought there were also drivers which cloned inode in mmap(), but if so, I cannot locate them now. Reported-and-tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Morten Stevens <mstevens@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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