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mm/madvise.c: fix madvise() infinite loop under special circumstances
MADVISE_WILLNEED has always been a noop for DAX (formerly XIP) mappings. Unfortunately madvise_willneed() doesn't communicate this information properly to the generic madvise syscall implementation. The calling convention is quite subtle there. madvise_vma() is supposed to either return an error or update &prev otherwise the main loop will never advance to the next vma and it will keep looping for ever without a way to get out of the kernel. It seems this has been broken since introduction. Nobody has noticed because nobody seems to be using MADVISE_WILLNEED on these DAX mappings. [[email protected]: rewrite changelog] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: fe77ba6 ("[PATCH] xip: madvice/fadvice: execute in place") Signed-off-by: chenjie <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: guoxuenan <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: zhangyi (F) <[email protected]> Cc: Miao Xie <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> Cc: Shaohua Li <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Carsten Otte <[email protected]> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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