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Commit 14fcc23f authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds
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tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode



SuSE's insserve initscript ordering program hits kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:814
on 2.6.26.  It's using posix_fadvise on directories, and the shmem_readpage
method added in 2.6.23 is letting POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED allocate useless pages
to a tmpfs directory, incrementing i_blocks count but never decrementing it.

Fix this by assigning shmem_aops (pointing to readpage and writepage and
set_page_dirty) only when it's needed, on a regular file or a long symlink.

Many thanks to Kel for outstanding bugreport and steps to reproduce it.

Reported-by: default avatarKel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Tested-by: default avatarKel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent ca5b172b
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