mm: tiny-shmem nommu fix

The previous patch db203d53d474aa068984e409d807628f5841da1b ("mm:
tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock
ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU
architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs
to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is
unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace).

However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it
taking i_mutex.  In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to
allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
index 52312ec..5145cb9 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
+++ b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ const struct inode_operations ramfs_file_inode_operations = {
  * size 0 on the assumption that it's going to be used for an mmap of shared
  * memory
  */
-static int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize)
+int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize)
 {
        struct pagevec lru_pvec;
        unsigned long npages, xpages, loop, limit;

diff --git a/include/linux/ramfs.h b/include/linux/ramfs.h
index b160fb1..37aaf2b 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/ramfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ramfs.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ extern int ramfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
         int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data, struct vfsmount *mnt);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+extern int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize);
 extern unsigned long ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,
                                                   unsigned long addr,
                                                   unsigned long len,

diff --git a/mm/tiny-shmem.c b/mm/tiny-shmem.c
index d17cb6f..8d7a27a 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/tiny-shmem.c
+++ b/mm/tiny-shmem.c
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ struct file *shmem_file_setup(char *name, loff_t size, unsigned long flags)
        inode->i_nlink = 0;     /* It is unlinked */
        init_file(file, shm_mnt, dentry, FMODE_WRITE | FMODE_READ,
                        &ramfs_file_operations);
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+       error = ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(inode, size);
+       if (error)
+               goto close_file;
+#endif
        return file;
 
 close_file: