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[PATCH] 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>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Badari Pulavarty 18 năm trước cách đây
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1 tập tin đã thay đổi với 6 bổ sung1 xóa
  1. 6 1
      mm/shmem.c

+ 6 - 1
mm/shmem.c

@@ -515,7 +515,12 @@ 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);