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Linus Torvalds 6d283dba37 vfs: add missing virtual cache flush after editing partial pages 
Andrew Morton pointed this out a month ago, and then I completely forgot
about it.

If we read a partial last page of a block device, we will zero out the
end of the page, but since that page can then be mapped into user space,
we should also make sure to flush the cache on architectures that have
virtual caches.  We have the flush_dcache_page() function for this, so
use it.

Now, in practice this really never matters, because nobody sane uses
virtual caches to begin with, and they largely exist on old broken RISC
arhitectures.

And even if you did run on one of those obsolete CPU's, the whole "mmap
and access the last partial page of a block device" behavior probably
doesn't actually exist.  The normal IO functions (read/write) will never
see the zeroed-out part of the page that migth not be coherent in the
cache, because they honor the size of the device.

So I'm marking this for stable (3.7 only), but I'm not sure anybody will
ever care.

Pointed-out-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # 3.7
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2013-01-14 13:17:50 -08:00
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9p The following changes since commit 4cbe5a555fa58a79b6ecbb6c531b8bab0650778d: 2012-10-12 09:59:23 +09:00
adfs adfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
affs affs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
afs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
autofs4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-12-17 15:44:47 -08:00
befs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
bfs bfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-12-20 18:14:31 -08:00
cachefiles FS-Cache: Mark cancellation of in-progress operation 2012-12-20 22:34:00 +00:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2012-12-20 14:00:13 -08:00
cifs CIFS: Don't let read only caching for mandatory byte-range locked files 2013-01-01 23:04:30 -06:00
coda fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems 2012-10-02 21:35:55 -04:00
configfs lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence" 2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
cramfs userns: Convert cramfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate 2012-09-21 03:13:08 -07:00
debugfs debugfs: convert gid= argument from decimal, not octal 2013-01-11 05:56:01 -08:00
devpts TTY: devpts, document devpts inode operations 2012-10-22 16:50:13 -07:00
dlm dlm: fix lvb invalidation conditions 2012-11-16 11:20:42 -06:00
ecryptfs fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c: make ecryptfs_encode_for_filename() static 2012-12-18 10:10:13 -06:00
efs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
exofs exofs: don't leak io_state and pages on read error 2012-12-14 12:17:32 +02:00
exportfs Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2012-12-20 14:04:11 -08:00
ext2 ext2: fix return values on parse_options() failure 2012-10-09 23:23:53 +02:00
ext3 lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence" 2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
ext4 ext4: remove duplicate call to ext4_bread() in ext4_init_new_dir() 2013-01-06 23:40:25 -05:00
f2fs f2fs: bug fixes for 3.8-rc2 2013-01-03 11:41:43 -08:00
fat fat: fix incorrect function comment 2012-12-20 17:40:20 -08:00
freevxfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
fscache FS-Cache: Clear remaining page count on retrieval cancellation 2012-12-20 22:35:15 +00:00
fuse Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-12-17 20:58:12 -08:00
gfs2 GFS2: Reset rd_last_alloc when it reaches the end of the rgrp 2013-01-02 10:05:27 +00:00
hfs hfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
hfsplus Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-12-20 20:00:43 -08:00
hostfs Merge branch 'for-linus-37rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2012-10-10 11:15:20 +09:00
hpfs hpfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 18:40:00 -05:00
hppfs pidns: Use task_active_pid_ns where appropriate 2012-11-19 05:59:09 -08:00
hugetlbfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
isofs tmpfs,ceph,gfs2,isofs,reiserfs,xfs: fix fh_len checking 2012-10-09 23:33:55 -04:00
jbd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
jbd2 Various bug fixes for ext4. Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one 2013-01-02 09:57:34 -08:00
jffs2 jffs2: hold erase_completion_lock on exit 2012-11-18 11:59:01 +02:00
jfs jfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 18:40:52 -05:00
lockd lockd: Remove BUG_ON()s from fs/lockd/clntproc.c 2012-11-04 14:43:40 -05:00
logfs logfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 18:40:53 -05:00
minix minix: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 18:40:53 -05:00
ncpfs ncpfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 18:40:54 -05:00
nfs nfs: avoid dereferencing null pointer in initiate_bulk_draining 2013-01-05 14:26:51 -05:00
nfs_common
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nfsd Revert "nfsd: warn on odd reply state in nfsd_vfs_read" 2012-12-21 17:07:45 -08:00
nilfs2 nilfs2: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 18:40:54 -05:00
nls
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notify Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify 2012-12-20 20:11:52 -08:00
ntfs ntfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 18:40:55 -05:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
omfs omfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
openpromfs fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems 2012-10-02 21:35:55 -04:00
proc mempolicy: remove arg from mpol_parse_str, mpol_to_str 2013-01-02 09:27:10 -08:00
pstore pstore: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:14 -08:00
qnx4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
qnx6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
quota quota: Use the pre-processor to compile out quotactl_cmd_write when !CONFIG_BLOCK 2012-12-13 16:33:24 +01:00
ramfs don't pass nameidata to ->create() 2012-07-14 16:34:47 +04:00
reiserfs reiserfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
romfs fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems 2012-10-02 21:35:55 -04:00
squashfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
sysfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-12-17 15:44:47 -08:00
sysv sysv: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
ubifs ubifs: use prandom_bytes 2012-12-17 17:15:26 -08:00
udf udf: remove un-needed variable from inode_getblk 2012-12-13 16:33:23 +01:00
ufs ufs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 14:00:01 -05:00
xfs xfs: fix sparse reported log CRC endian issue 2012-12-03 12:10:59 -06:00
Kconfig Introduce a new file system, Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS), to Linux 3.8. 2012-12-20 13:54:52 -08:00
Kconfig.binfmt coredump: make core dump functionality optional 2012-10-06 03:05:15 +09:00
Makefile f2fs: update Kconfig and Makefile 2012-12-11 13:43:42 +09:00
aio.c aio: now fput() is OK from interrupt context; get rid of manual delayed __fput() 2012-07-22 23:57:59 +04:00
anon_inodes.c
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attr.c userns: Allow chown and setgid preservation 2012-11-20 04:17:24 -08:00
bad_inode.c lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence" 2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
binfmt_aout.c get rid of pt_regs argument of ->load_binary() 2012-11-28 21:53:38 -05:00
binfmt_elf.c binfmt_elf: fix corner case kfree of uninitialized data 2012-12-17 17:15:19 -08:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c get rid of pt_regs argument of ->load_binary() 2012-11-28 21:53:38 -05:00
binfmt_em86.c exec: use -ELOOP for max recursion depth 2012-12-17 17:15:23 -08:00
binfmt_flat.c get rid of pt_regs argument of ->load_binary() 2012-11-28 21:53:38 -05:00
binfmt_misc.c exec: do not leave bprm->interp on stack 2012-12-20 17:40:19 -08:00
binfmt_script.c exec: do not leave bprm->interp on stack 2012-12-20 17:40:19 -08:00
binfmt_som.c get rid of pt_regs argument of ->load_binary() 2012-11-28 21:53:38 -05:00
bio-integrity.c block: Ues bi_pool for bio_integrity_alloc() 2012-09-09 10:35:38 +02:00
bio.c vfs: fix: don't increase bio_slab_max if krealloc() fails 2012-10-22 22:00:26 +02:00
block_dev.c lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence" 2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
buffer.c vfs: add missing virtual cache flush after editing partial pages 2013-01-14 13:17:50 -08:00
char_dev.c char_dev: pin parent kobject 2012-10-22 08:50:37 +03:00
compat.c vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it 2012-10-12 20:14:55 -04:00
compat_binfmt_elf.c coredump: extend core dump note section to contain file names of mapped files 2012-10-06 03:05:17 +09:00
compat_ioctl.c Merge 3.7-rc3 into tty-next 2012-10-29 09:00:57 -07:00
coredump.c do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument 2012-11-29 00:01:25 -05:00
coredump.h coredump: update coredump-related headers 2012-10-06 03:05:15 +09:00
dcache.c vfs: d_obtain_alias() needs to use "/" as default name. 2012-12-20 18:49:10 -05:00
dcookies.c
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direct-io.c direct-io: don't read inode->i_blkbits multiple times 2012-11-29 12:38:44 -08:00
drop_caches.c
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eventfd.c fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper 2012-12-17 17:15:27 -08:00
eventpoll.c epoll: prevent missed events on EPOLL_CTL_MOD 2013-01-02 09:16:43 -08:00
exec.c fs/exec.c: work around icc miscompilation 2013-01-11 14:54:55 -08:00
fcntl.c Fix F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC breakage 2012-10-09 15:52:31 +09:00
fhandle.c Merge branch 'for-3.8' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2012-12-20 14:04:11 -08:00
fifo.c fifo: Do not restart open() if it already found a partner 2012-07-16 08:33:14 -07:00
file.c misc: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:16 -08:00
file_table.c fs: Fix imbalance in freeze protection in mark_files_ro() 2012-12-20 13:57:36 -05:00
filesystems.c vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it 2012-10-12 20:14:55 -04:00
fs-writeback.c writeback: fix a typo in comment 2012-12-12 17:38:34 -08:00
fs_struct.c kill daemonize() 2012-11-28 21:49:02 -05:00
generic_acl.c userns: Pass a userns parameter into posix_acl_to_xattr and posix_acl_from_xattr 2012-09-18 01:01:35 -07:00
inode.c mm: redefine address_space.assoc_mapping 2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
internal.h writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion 2012-11-26 17:41:24 -08:00
ioctl.c switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
ioprio.c
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libfs.c vfs: drop vmtruncate 2012-12-20 18:46:29 -05:00
locks.c UAPI Disintegration 2012-10-09 2012-10-09 18:35:22 -04:00
mbcache.c
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mount.h proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors. 2012-11-20 04:19:49 -08:00
mpage.c
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namei.c vfs: fix renameat to retry on ESTALE errors 2012-12-20 18:50:05 -05:00
namespace.c vfs, freeze: use ACCESS_ONCE() to guard access to ->mnt_flags 2012-12-20 13:36:18 -05:00
no-block.c
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open.c vfs: make fchownat retry once on ESTALE errors 2012-12-20 18:50:07 -05:00
pipe.c pipe(2) - race-free error recovery 2012-09-26 21:08:52 -04:00
pnode.c VFS: Make clone_mnt()/copy_tree()/collect_mounts() return errors 2012-07-14 16:37:27 +04:00
pnode.h vfs: Only support slave subtrees across different user namespaces 2012-11-19 05:59:20 -08:00
posix_acl.c userns: Convert vfs posix_acl support to use kuids and kgids 2012-09-18 01:01:35 -07:00
proc_namespace.c get rid of magic in proc_namespace.c 2012-07-14 16:32:48 +04:00
read_write.c sendfile: allows bypassing of notifier events 2012-12-20 17:40:21 -08:00
read_write.h compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation 2012-10-02 21:35:55 -04:00
readdir.c switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
select.c switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
seq_file.c seq_file: fix new kernel-doc warnings 2013-01-10 14:35:24 -08:00
signalfd.c fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper 2012-12-17 17:15:27 -08:00
splice.c tcp: fix MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST logic 2013-01-06 20:58:13 -08:00
stack.c
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stat.c vfs: fix readlinkat to retry on ESTALE 2012-12-20 18:50:01 -05:00
statfs.c vfs: fix user_statfs to retry once on ESTALE errors 2012-12-20 18:50:07 -05:00
super.c vfs: drop lock/unlock super 2012-10-09 23:33:39 -04:00
sync.c switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
timerfd.c switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
utimes.c vfs: allow utimensat() calls to retry once on an ESTALE error 2012-12-20 18:50:08 -05:00
xattr.c vfs: make lremovexattr retry once on ESTALE error 2012-12-20 18:50:11 -05:00
xattr_acl.c userns: Fix posix_acl_file_xattr_userns gid conversion 2012-10-12 13:16:48 -07:00