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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/secretmem: fix panic when growing a memfd_secret
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:32:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YjzjiDFBgigPqEO9@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220324210909.1843814-1-axelrasmussen@google.com>

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 02:09:09PM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> This patch avoids the panic by implementing a custom setattr for
> memfd_secret, which detects resizes specifically (setting the size for
> the first time works just fine, since there are no existing pages to try
> to zero), and rejects them as not supported (ENOTSUP).

Isn't ENOTTY the normal return value for this?  Or even ENOSYS?


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-24 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-24 21:09 Axel Rasmussen
2022-03-24 21:32 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2022-03-24 21:44   ` Axel Rasmussen
2022-03-31 17:42     ` Axel Rasmussen
2022-04-07 20:50       ` Andrew Morton
2022-04-11 17:29         ` Axel Rasmussen

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