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| author | Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> | 2007-01-07 00:58:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-01-09 03:23:34 +0100 |
| commit | ac7663f17a4b5dc08776eb71f870bde40a0e5a37 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d5b98f16bb3a0119872cfc347cd6447990c7901 /mm | |
| parent | 45c97a2582a6dc2a41fbb71b14fd4c61402ad926 (diff) | |
Fix for shmem_truncate_range() BUG_ON()
Ran into BUG() while doing madvise(REMOVE) testing. If we are punching a
hole into shared memory segment using madvise(REMOVE) and the entire hole
is below the indirect blocks, we hit following assert.
BUG_ON(limit <= SHMEM_NR_DIRECT);
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Forwarded-by: Jordan Neumeyer
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/shmem.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 1bc2285f746..e25bceda7dd 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -510,7 +510,12 @@ static void shmem_truncate_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t start, loff_t end) size = SHMEM_NR_DIRECT; nr_swaps_freed = shmem_free_swp(ptr+idx, ptr+size); } - if (!topdir) + + /* + * If there are no indirect blocks or we are punching a hole + * below indirect blocks, nothing to be done. + */ + if (!topdir || (punch_hole && (limit <= SHMEM_NR_DIRECT))) goto done2; BUG_ON(limit <= SHMEM_NR_DIRECT); |