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In cachestat, we access the folio from the page cache's xarray to compute its page offset, and check for its dirty and writeback flags. However, we do not hold a reference to the folio before performing these actions, which means the folio can concurrently be released and reused as another folio/page/slab. Get around this altogether by just using xarray's existing machinery for the folio page offsets and dirty/writeback states. This changes behavior for tmpfs files to now always report zeroes in their dirty and writeback counters. This is okay as tmpfs doesn't follow conventional writeback cache behavior: its pages get "cleaned" during swapout, after which they're no longer resident etc. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240220153409.GA216065@cmpxchg.org Fixes: cf264e1329fb ("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.4+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.