Tobias Lindskog
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When ashmem_shrink is called from direct reclaim on a user thread, a call to do_fallocate will check for permissions against the security policy of that user thread. It can thus fail by chance if called on a thread that isn't permitted to modify the relevant ashmem areas. Because we know that we have a shmem file underneath, call the shmem implementation of fallocate directly instead of going through the user-space interface for fallocate. Signed-off-by: Tobias Lindskog <tobias.lindskog@sonymobile.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.