On Fri, 18 May 2018 18:35:08 -0700 Dan Williams <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> get_user_pages_fast() for device pages is missing the typical validation
> that all page references have been taken while the mapping was valid.
> Without this validation truncate operations can not reliably coordinate
> against new page reference events like O_DIRECT.
> 
> Cc: <[email protected]>

I'm not seeing anything in the changelog which justifies a -stable
backport.  ie: a description of the end-user-visible effects of the
bug?

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