Commit 7032a283 authored by Minchan Kim's avatar Minchan Kim Committed by Amit Pundir
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UPSTREAM: zram: support BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES

zram has used per-cpu stream feature from v4.7.  It aims for increasing
cache hit ratio of scratch buffer for compressing.  Downside of that
approach is that zram should ask memory space for compressed page in
per-cpu context which requires stricted gfp flag which could be failed.
If so, it retries to allocate memory space out of per-cpu context so it
could get memory this time and compress the data again, copies it to the
memory space.

In this scenario, zram assumes the data should never be changed but it is
not true without stable page support.  So, If the data is changed under
us, zram can make buffer overrun so that zsmalloc free object chain is
broken so system goes crash like below

   https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997574

This patch adds BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES to zram for declaring "I am block
device needing *stable write*".

Fixes: da9556a2 ("zram: user per-cpu compression streams")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482366980-3782-4-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@lge.com>
Cc: <yjay.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Sangseok Lee <sangseok.lee@lge.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.7+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

(cherry picked from commit b09ab054)
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Kalauskas <peskal@google.com>
Bug: 112488418
Change-Id: I3134a5882c1939792ffa71b8f31f7ab642a0e9a3
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
parent ba6cca5f
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