[PATCH v6 12/17] /dev/mem: Only set filp->f_mapping

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Thu Nov 19 14:41:41 UTC 2020


When we care about pagecache maintenance, we need to make sure that
both f_mapping and i_mapping point at the right mapping.

But for iomem mappings we only care about the virtual/pte side of
things, so f_mapping is enough. Also setting inode->i_mapping was
confusing me as a driver maintainer, since in e.g. drivers/gpu we
don't do that. Per Dan this seems to be copypasta from places which do
care about pagecache consistency, but not needed. Hence remove it for
slightly less confusion.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-samsung-soc at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media at vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
---
 drivers/char/mem.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 94c2b556cf97..7dcf9e4ea79d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mem.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -891,7 +891,6 @@ static int open_port(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	 * revocations when drivers want to take over a /dev/mem mapped
 	 * range.
 	 */
-	inode->i_mapping = devmem_inode->i_mapping;
 	filp->f_mapping = inode->i_mapping;
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.29.2



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