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Nick Piggin authored
sg increments the refcount of constituent pages in its higher order memory
allocations when they are about to be mapped by userspace.  This is done so
the subsequent get_page/put_page when doing the mapping and unmapping does not
free the page.

Move over to the preferred way, that is, using compound pages instead.  This
fixes a whole class of possible obscure bugs where a get_user_pages on a
constituent page may outlast the user mappings or even the driver.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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