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Commit 75723957 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Fix possible splice() mmap_sem deadlock



Nick Piggin points out that splice isn't being good about the mmap
semaphore: while two readers can nest inside each others, it does leave
a possible deadlock if a writer (ie a new mmap()) comes in during that
nesting.

Original "just move the locking" patch by Nick, replaced by one by me
based on an optimistic pagefault_disable().  And then Jens tested and
updated that patch.

Reported-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Tested-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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