linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] vfs: bug fix for 5.7

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Date:   Thu, 2 Apr 2020 09:16:00 -0700
From:   "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        david@...morbit.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        sandeen@...deen.net, hch@....de,
        linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, domenico.andreoli@...ux.com
Subject: [GIT PULL] vfs: bug fix for 5.7

Hi Linus,

Please pull this single vfs bug fix into 5.7 to fix a regression in
userspace hibernation now that the vfs doesn't really allow userspace to
write to active swap devices anymore.

--D

The following changes since commit 98d54f81e36ba3bf92172791eba5ca5bd813989b:

  Linux 5.6-rc4 (2020-03-01 16:38:46 -0600)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux.git tags/vfs-5.7-merge-1

for you to fetch changes up to 56939e014a6c212b317414faa307029e2e80c3b9:

  hibernate: Allow uswsusp to write to swap (2020-03-23 08:22:15 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
New code for 5.7:
 - Fix a regression where we broke the userspace hibernation driver by
   disallowing writes to the swap device.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Domenico Andreoli (1):
      hibernate: Allow uswsusp to write to swap

 fs/block_dev.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)