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In cachestat, we access the folio from the page cache's xarray to compute
its page offset, and check for its dirty and writeback flags. However, we
do not hold a reference to the folio before performing these actions,
which means the folio can concurrently be released and reused as another
folio/page/slab.
Get around this altogether by just using xarray's existing machinery for
the folio page offsets and dirty/writeback states.
This changes behavior for tmpfs files to now always report zeroes in their
dirty and writeback counters. This is okay as tmpfs doesn't follow
conventional writeback cache behavior: its pages get "cleaned" during
swapout, after which they're no longer resident etc.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240220153409.GA216065@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: cf264e1329 ("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [6.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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