Patch "v4l2: disable filesystem-dax mapping support" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

v4l2: disable filesystem-dax mapping support

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
v4l2-disable-filesystem-dax-mapping-support.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:10:43 -0800
Subject: v4l2: disable filesystem-dax mapping support

From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

commit b70131de648c2b997d22f4653934438013f407a1 upstream.

V4L2 memory registrations are incompatible with filesystem-dax that needs the ability to revoke dma access to a mapping at will, or otherwise allow the kernel to wait for completion of DMA. The filesystem-dax implementation breaks the traditional solution of truncate of active file backed mappings since there is no page-cache page we can orphan to sustain ongoing DMA.

If v4l2 wants to support long lived DMA mappings it needs to arrange to hold a file lease or use some other mechanism so that the kernel can coordinate revoking DMA access when the filesystem needs to truncate mappings.

---
 drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-dma-sg.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -185,12 +185,13 @@ static int videobuf_dma_init_user_locked
 	dprintk(1, "init user [0x%lx+0x%lx => %d pages]\n",
 		data, size, dma->nr_pages);
 
-	err = get_user_pages(data & PAGE_MASK, dma->nr_pages,
+	err = get_user_pages_longterm(data & PAGE_MASK, dma->nr_pages,
 			     flags, dma->pages, NULL);
 
 	if (err != dma->nr_pages) {
 		dma->nr_pages = (err >= 0) ? err : 0;
-		dprintk(1, "get_user_pages: err=%d [%d]\n", err, dma->nr_pages);
+		dprintk(1, "get_user_pages_longterm: err=%d [%d]\n", err,
+			dma->nr_pages);
 		return err < 0 ? err : -EINVAL;
 	}
 	return 0;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 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