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<title>Linux 3.18.86</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-12-05T10:20:47+00:00</published>
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<title>drm/i915: Prevent zero length "index" write</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ville Syrjälä</name>
<email>ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-23T19:41:57+00:00</published>
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commit 56350fb8978bbf4aafe08f21234e161dd128b417 upstream.

The hardware always writes one or two bytes in the index portion of
an indexed transfer. Make sure the message we send as the index
doesn't have a zero length.

Cc: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;seanpaul@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 56f9eac05489 ("drm/i915/intel_i2c: use INDEX cycles for i2c read transactions")
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171123194157.25367-3-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
(cherry picked from commit bb9e0d4bca50f429152e74a459160b41f3d60fb2)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 56350fb8978bbf4aafe08f21234e161dd128b417 upstream.

The hardware always writes one or two bytes in the index portion of
an indexed transfer. Make sure the message we send as the index
doesn't have a zero length.

Cc: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;seanpaul@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 56f9eac05489 ("drm/i915/intel_i2c: use INDEX cycles for i2c read transactions")
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171123194157.25367-3-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
(cherry picked from commit bb9e0d4bca50f429152e74a459160b41f3d60fb2)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>drm/i915: Don't try indexed reads to alternate slave addresses</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ville Syrjälä</name>
<email>ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-23T19:41:56+00:00</published>
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commit ae5c631e605a452a5a0e73205a92810c01ed954b upstream.

We can only specify the one slave address to indexed reads/writes.
Make sure the messages we check are destined to the same slave
address before deciding to do an indexed transfer.

Cc: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;seanpaul@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 56f9eac05489 ("drm/i915/intel_i2c: use INDEX cycles for i2c read transactions")
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171123194157.25367-2-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
(cherry picked from commit c4deb62d7821672265b87952bcd1c808f3bf3e8f)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ae5c631e605a452a5a0e73205a92810c01ed954b upstream.

We can only specify the one slave address to indexed reads/writes.
Make sure the messages we check are destined to the same slave
address before deciding to do an indexed transfer.

Cc: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;seanpaul@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 56f9eac05489 ("drm/i915/intel_i2c: use INDEX cycles for i2c read transactions")
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171123194157.25367-2-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
(cherry picked from commit c4deb62d7821672265b87952bcd1c808f3bf3e8f)
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>NFS: revalidate "." etc correctly on "open".</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-25T07:34:41+00:00</published>
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commit b688741cb06695312f18b730653d6611e1bad28d upstream.

For correct close-to-open semantics, NFS must validate
the change attribute of a directory (or file) on open.

Since commit ecf3d1f1aa74 ("vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a
d_weak_revalidate dentry op"), open() of "." or a path ending ".." is
not revalidated reliably (except when that direct is a mount point).

Prior to that commit, "." was revalidated using nfs_lookup_revalidate()
which checks the LOOKUP_OPEN flag and forces revalidation if the flag is
set.
Since that commit, nfs_weak_revalidate() is used for NFSv3 (which
ignores the flags) and nothing is used for NFSv4.

This is fixed by using nfs_lookup_verify_inode() in
nfs_weak_revalidate().  This does the revalidation exactly when needed.
Also, add a definition of .d_weak_revalidate for NFSv4.

The incorrect behavior is easily demonstrated by running "echo *" in
some non-mountpoint NFS directory while watching network traffic.
Without this patch, "echo *" sometimes doesn't produce any traffic.
With the patch it always does.

Fixes: ecf3d1f1aa74 ("vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op")
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.9+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b688741cb06695312f18b730653d6611e1bad28d upstream.

For correct close-to-open semantics, NFS must validate
the change attribute of a directory (or file) on open.

Since commit ecf3d1f1aa74 ("vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a
d_weak_revalidate dentry op"), open() of "." or a path ending ".." is
not revalidated reliably (except when that direct is a mount point).

Prior to that commit, "." was revalidated using nfs_lookup_revalidate()
which checks the LOOKUP_OPEN flag and forces revalidation if the flag is
set.
Since that commit, nfs_weak_revalidate() is used for NFSv3 (which
ignores the flags) and nothing is used for NFSv4.

This is fixed by using nfs_lookup_verify_inode() in
nfs_weak_revalidate().  This does the revalidation exactly when needed.
Also, add a definition of .d_weak_revalidate for NFSv4.

The incorrect behavior is easily demonstrated by running "echo *" in
some non-mountpoint NFS directory while watching network traffic.
Without this patch, "echo *" sometimes doesn't produce any traffic.
With the patch it always does.

Fixes: ecf3d1f1aa74 ("vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op")
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.9+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>drm/panel: simple: Add missing panel_simple_unprepare() calls</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Liu</name>
<email>net147@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-07T11:55:45+00:00</published>
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commit f3621a8eb59a913612c8e6e37d81f16b649f8b6c upstream.

During panel removal or system shutdown panel_simple_disable() is called
which disables the panel backlight but the panel is still powered due to
missing calls to panel_simple_unprepare().

Fixes: d02fd93e2cd8 ("drm/panel: simple - Disable panel on shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu &lt;net147@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding &lt;treding@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170807115545.27747-1-net147@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f3621a8eb59a913612c8e6e37d81f16b649f8b6c upstream.

During panel removal or system shutdown panel_simple_disable() is called
which disables the panel backlight but the panel is still powered due to
missing calls to panel_simple_unprepare().

Fixes: d02fd93e2cd8 ("drm/panel: simple - Disable panel on shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu &lt;net147@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding &lt;treding@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170807115545.27747-1-net147@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>eeprom: at24: check at24_read/write arguments</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiner Kallweit</name>
<email>hkallweit1@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-24T06:47:50+00:00</published>
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commit d9bcd462daf34aebb8de9ad7f76de0198bb5a0f0 upstream.

So far we completely rely on the caller to provide valid arguments.
To be on the safe side perform an own sanity check.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit &lt;hkallweit1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski &lt;brgl@bgdev.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d9bcd462daf34aebb8de9ad7f76de0198bb5a0f0 upstream.

So far we completely rely on the caller to provide valid arguments.
To be on the safe side perform an own sanity check.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit &lt;hkallweit1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski &lt;brgl@bgdev.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: inject exceptions produced by x86_decode_insn</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-10T09:49:38+00:00</published>
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commit 6ea6e84309ca7e0e850b3083e6b09344ee15c290 upstream.

Sometimes, a processor might execute an instruction while another
processor is updating the page tables for that instruction's code page,
but before the TLB shootdown completes.  The interesting case happens
if the page is in the TLB.

In general, the processor will succeed in executing the instruction and
nothing bad happens.  However, what if the instruction is an MMIO access?
If *that* happens, KVM invokes the emulator, and the emulator gets the
updated page tables.  If the update side had marked the code page as non
present, the page table walk then will fail and so will x86_decode_insn.

Unfortunately, even though kvm_fetch_guest_virt is correctly returning
X86EMUL_PROPAGATE_FAULT, x86_decode_insn's caller treats the failure as
a fatal error if the instruction cannot simply be reexecuted (as is the
case for MMIO).  And this in fact happened sometimes when rebooting
Windows 2012r2 guests.  Just checking ctxt-&gt;have_exception and injecting
the exception if true is enough to fix the case.

Thanks to Eduardo Habkost for helping in the debugging of this issue.

Reported-by: Yanan Fu &lt;yfu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eduardo Habkost &lt;ehabkost@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6ea6e84309ca7e0e850b3083e6b09344ee15c290 upstream.

Sometimes, a processor might execute an instruction while another
processor is updating the page tables for that instruction's code page,
but before the TLB shootdown completes.  The interesting case happens
if the page is in the TLB.

In general, the processor will succeed in executing the instruction and
nothing bad happens.  However, what if the instruction is an MMIO access?
If *that* happens, KVM invokes the emulator, and the emulator gets the
updated page tables.  If the update side had marked the code page as non
present, the page table walk then will fail and so will x86_decode_insn.

Unfortunately, even though kvm_fetch_guest_virt is correctly returning
X86EMUL_PROPAGATE_FAULT, x86_decode_insn's caller treats the failure as
a fatal error if the instruction cannot simply be reexecuted (as is the
case for MMIO).  And this in fact happened sometimes when rebooting
Windows 2012r2 guests.  Just checking ctxt-&gt;have_exception and injecting
the exception if true is enough to fix the case.

Thanks to Eduardo Habkost for helping in the debugging of this issue.

Reported-by: Yanan Fu &lt;yfu@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eduardo Habkost &lt;ehabkost@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Exit to user-mode on #UD intercept when emulator requires</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liran Alon</name>
<email>liran.alon@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-05T14:56:32+00:00</published>
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commit 61cb57c9ed631c95b54f8e9090c89d18b3695b3c upstream.

Instruction emulation after trapping a #UD exception can result in an
MMIO access, for example when emulating a MOVBE on a processor that
doesn't support the instruction.  In this case, the #UD vmexit handler
must exit to user mode, but there wasn't any code to do so.  Add it for
both VMX and SVM.

Signed-off-by: Liran Alon &lt;liran.alon@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko &lt;nikita.leshchenko@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 61cb57c9ed631c95b54f8e9090c89d18b3695b3c upstream.

Instruction emulation after trapping a #UD exception can result in an
MMIO access, for example when emulating a MOVBE on a processor that
doesn't support the instruction.  In this case, the #UD vmexit handler
must exit to user mode, but there wasn't any code to do so.  Add it for
both VMX and SVM.

Signed-off-by: Liran Alon &lt;liran.alon@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko &lt;nikita.leshchenko@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;wanpeng.li@hotmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář &lt;rkrcmar@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: clear space cache inode generation always</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>jbacik@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T19:50:46+00:00</published>
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commit 8e138e0d92c6c9d3d481674fb14e3439b495be37 upstream.

We discovered a box that had double allocations, and suspected the space
cache may be to blame.  While auditing the write out path I noticed that
if we've already setup the space cache we will just carry on.  This
means that any error we hit after cache_save_setup before we go to
actually write the cache out we won't reset the inode generation, so
whatever was already written will be considered correct, except it'll be
stale.  Fix this by _always_ resetting the generation on the block group
inode, this way we only ever have valid or invalid cache.

With this patch I was no longer able to reproduce cache corruption with
dm-log-writes and my bpf error injection tool.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8e138e0d92c6c9d3d481674fb14e3439b495be37 upstream.

We discovered a box that had double allocations, and suspected the space
cache may be to blame.  While auditing the write out path I noticed that
if we've already setup the space cache we will just carry on.  This
means that any error we hit after cache_save_setup before we go to
actually write the cache out we won't reset the inode generation, so
whatever was already written will be considered correct, except it'll be
stale.  Fix this by _always_ resetting the generation on the block group
inode, this way we only ever have valid or invalid cache.

With this patch I was no longer able to reproduce cache corruption with
dm-log-writes and my bpf error injection tool.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/madvise.c: fix madvise() infinite loop under special circumstances</title>
<updated>2017-12-05T10:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>chenjie</name>
<email>chenjie6@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-30T00:10:54+00:00</published>
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commit 6ea8d958a2c95a1d514015d4e29ba21a8c0a1a91 upstream.

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 &amp;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.

[mhocko@suse.com: rewrite changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127115318.911-1-guoxuenan@huawei.com
Fixes: fe77ba6f4f97 ("[PATCH] xip: madvice/fadvice: execute in place")
Signed-off-by: chenjie &lt;chenjie6@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: guoxuenan &lt;guoxuenan@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaoxie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6ea8d958a2c95a1d514015d4e29ba21a8c0a1a91 upstream.

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 &amp;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.

[mhocko@suse.com: rewrite changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127115318.911-1-guoxuenan@huawei.com
Fixes: fe77ba6f4f97 ("[PATCH] xip: madvice/fadvice: execute in place")
Signed-off-by: chenjie &lt;chenjie6@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: guoxuenan &lt;guoxuenan@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaoxie@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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