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Pull fscache and cachefiles fixes from David Howells:
"Misc fixes:
- Fix an assertion failure at fs/cachefiles/xattr.c:138 caused by a
race between a cache object lookup failing and someone attempting
to reenable that object, thereby triggering an update of the
object's attributes.
- Fix an assertion failure at fs/fscache/operation.c:449 caused by a
split atomic subtract and atomic read that allows a race to happen.
- Fix a leak of backing pages when simultaneously reading the same
page from the same object from two or more threads.
- Fix a hang due to a race between a cache object being discarded and
the corresponding cookie being reenabled.
There are also some minor cleanups:
- Cast an enum value to a different enum type to prevent clang from
generating a warning. This shouldn't cause any sort of change in
the emitted code.
- Use ktime_get_real_seconds() instead of get_seconds(). This is just
used to uniquify a filename for an object to be placed in the
graveyard. Objects placed there are deleted by cachfilesd in
userspace immediately thereafter.
- Remove an initialised, but otherwise unused variable. This should
have been entirely optimised away anyway"
* tag 'fscache-fixes-20181130' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
fscache, cachefiles: remove redundant variable 'cache'
cachefiles: avoid deprecated get_seconds()
cachefiles: Explicitly cast enumerated type in put_object
fscache: fix race between enablement and dropping of object
cachefiles: Fix page leak in cachefiles_read_backing_file while vmscan is active
fscache: Fix race in fscache_op_complete() due to split atomic_sub & read
cachefiles: Fix an assertion failure when trying to update a failed object
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