linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.16 191/196] device-dax: allow MAP

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Date:   Sun, 22 Apr 2018 15:53:31 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.16 191/196] device-dax: allow MAP_SYNC to succeed

4.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>

commit ef8423022324cf79bd1b41d8707c766461e7e555 upstream.

MAP_SYNC is a nop for device-dax. Allow MAP_SYNC to succeed on device-dax
to eliminate special casing between device-dax and fs-dax as to when the
flag can be specified. Device-dax users already implicitly assume that they do
not need to call fsync(), and this enables them to explicitly check for this
capability.

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Fixes: b6fb293f2497 ("mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags")
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/dax/device.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/dax/device.c
+++ b/drivers/dax/device.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/dax.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/mman.h>
 #include "dax-private.h"
 #include "dax.h"
 
@@ -534,6 +535,7 @@ static const struct file_operations dax_
 	.release = dax_release,
 	.get_unmapped_area = dax_get_unmapped_area,
 	.mmap = dax_mmap,
+	.mmap_supported_flags = MAP_SYNC,
 };
 
 static void dev_dax_release(struct device *dev)