Adding upstream version 6.9.7.upstream/6.9.7

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/dax/super.c b/drivers/dax/super.c
index f4b6355263..aca71d7fcc 100644
--- a/drivers/dax/super.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/super.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/dax.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/cacheinfo.h>
 #include "dax-private.h"
 
 /**
@@ -319,6 +320,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dax_alive);
  * that any fault handlers or operations that might have seen
  * dax_alive(), have completed.  Any operations that start after
  * synchronize_srcu() has run will abort upon seeing !dax_alive().
+ *
+ * Note, because alloc_dax() returns an ERR_PTR() on error, callers
+ * typically store its result into a local variable in order to check
+ * the result. Therefore, care must be taken to populate the struct
+ * device dax_dev field make sure the dax_dev is not leaked.
  */
 void kill_dax(struct dax_device *dax_dev)
 {
@@ -446,6 +452,14 @@ struct dax_device *alloc_dax(void *private, const struct dax_operations *ops)
 	dev_t devt;
 	int minor;
 
+	/*
+	 * Unavailable on architectures with virtually aliased data caches,
+	 * except for device-dax (NULL operations pointer), which does
+	 * not use aliased mappings from the kernel.
+	 */
+	if (ops && cpu_dcache_is_aliasing())
+		return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
+
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ops && !ops->zero_page_range))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
@@ -532,8 +546,7 @@ static int dax_fs_init(void)
 	int rc;
 
 	dax_cache = kmem_cache_create("dax_cache", sizeof(struct dax_device), 0,
-			(SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|
-			 SLAB_MEM_SPREAD|SLAB_ACCOUNT),
+			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_ACCOUNT,
 			init_once);
 	if (!dax_cache)
 		return -ENOMEM;