This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

IB/core: disable memory registration of filesystem-dax vmas

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: ib-core-disable-memory-registration-of-filesystem-dax-vmas.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 5f1d43de54164dcfb9bfa542fcc92c1e1a1b6c1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:10:47 -0800 Subject: IB/core: disable memory registration of filesystem-dax vmas

From: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com

commit 5f1d43de54164dcfb9bfa542fcc92c1e1a1b6c1d upstream.

Until there is a solution to the dma-to-dax vs truncate problem it is not safe to allow RDMA to create long standing memory registrations against filesytem-dax vmas.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151068941011.7446.7766030590347262502.stgit@dwillia... Fixes: 3565fce3a659 ("mm, x86: get_user_pages() for dax mappings") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe jgg@mellanox.com Acked-by: Doug Ledford dledford@redhat.com Cc: Sean Hefty sean.hefty@intel.com Cc: Hal Rosenstock hal.rosenstock@gmail.com Cc: Jeff Moyer jmoyer@redhat.com Cc: Ross Zwisler ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com Cc: Inki Dae inki.dae@samsung.com Cc: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Cc: Joonyoung Shim jy0922.shim@samsung.com Cc: Kyungmin Park kyungmin.park@samsung.com Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@kernel.org Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@suse.de Cc: Seung-Woo Kim sw0312.kim@samsung.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ struct ib_umem *ib_umem_get(struct ib_uc sg_list_start = umem->sg_head.sgl;

while (npages) { - ret = get_user_pages(cur_base, + ret = get_user_pages_longterm(cur_base, min_t(unsigned long, npages, PAGE_SIZE / sizeof (struct page *)), gup_flags, page_list, vma_list);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.j.williams@intel.com are

queue-4.14/mm-hugetlbfs-introduce-split-to-vm_operations_struct.patch queue-4.14/ib-core-disable-memory-registration-of-filesystem-dax-vmas.patch queue-4.14/mm-introduce-get_user_pages_longterm.patch queue-4.14/mm-fail-get_vaddr_frames-for-filesystem-dax-mappings.patch queue-4.14/device-dax-implement-split-to-catch-invalid-munmap-attempts.patch queue-4.14/v4l2-disable-filesystem-dax-mapping-support.patch queue-4.14/mm-fix-device-dax-pud-write-faults-triggered-by-get_user_pages.patch queue-4.14/mm-madvise.c-fix-madvise-infinite-loop-under-special-circumstances.patch