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-rw-r--r--drivers/dax/super.c17
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/dax/super.c b/drivers/dax/super.c
index f4b635526..aca71d7fc 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;