Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] vfs: don't allow writes to swap files

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Aug 18 2019 - 04:39:45 EST


On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 09:19:49AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Don't let userspace write to an active swap file because the kernel
> effectively has a long term lease on the storage and things could get
> seriously corrupted if we let this happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>