linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] Two folio fixes for 5.18

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Date:   Fri, 6 May 2022 00:43:18 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] Two folio fixes for 5.18

Darrick and Brian have done amazing work debugging the race I created
in the folio BIO iterator.  The readahead problem was deterministic,
so easy to fix.

The following changes since commit a7391ad3572431a354c927cf8896e86e50d7d0bf:

  Merge tag 'iomm-fixes-v5.18-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu (2022-05-04 11:04:52 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache.git tags/folio-5.18f

for you to fetch changes up to b9ff43dd27434dbd850b908e2e0e1f6e794efd9b:

  mm/readahead: Fix readahead with large folios (2022-05-05 00:47:29 -0400)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Two folio fixes for 5.18:

 - Fix a race when we were calling folio_next() in the BIO folio iter
   without holding a reference, meaning the folio could be split or freed,
   and we'd jump to the next page instead of the intended next folio.

 - Fix readahead creating single-page folios instead of the intended
   large folios when doing reads that are not a power of two in size.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (2):
      block: Do not call folio_next() on an unreferenced folio
      mm/readahead: Fix readahead with large folios

 include/linux/bio.h |  5 ++++-
 mm/readahead.c      | 15 +++++++++------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)