mm: tiny-shmem nommu fix

The previous patch db203d53d474aa068984e409d807628f5841da1b ("mm:
tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock
ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU
architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs
to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is
unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace).

However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it
taking i_mutex.  In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to
allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/tiny-shmem.c b/mm/tiny-shmem.c
index d17cb6f6ab10..8d7a27a6335c 100644
--- a/mm/tiny-shmem.c
+++ b/mm/tiny-shmem.c
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ struct file *shmem_file_setup(char *name, loff_t size, unsigned long flags)
         inode->i_nlink = 0;     /* It is unlinked */
         init_file(file, shm_mnt, dentry, FMODE_WRITE | FMODE_READ,
                         &ramfs_file_operations);
+
+#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+        error = ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(inode, size);
+        if (error)
+                goto close_file;
+#endif
         return file;
 
 close_file: