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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: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Tested-by: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins 2008-07-28 15:46:19 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ca5b172bd2
commit 14fcc23fdc
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -1513,7 +1513,6 @@ shmem_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, int mode, dev_t dev)
inode->i_uid = current->fsuid;
inode->i_gid = current->fsgid;
inode->i_blocks = 0;
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &shmem_aops;
inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info = &shmem_backing_dev_info;
inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
inode->i_generation = get_seconds();
@ -1528,6 +1527,7 @@ shmem_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, int mode, dev_t dev)
init_special_inode(inode, mode, dev);
break;
case S_IFREG:
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &shmem_aops;
inode->i_op = &shmem_inode_operations;
inode->i_fop = &shmem_file_operations;
mpol_shared_policy_init(&info->policy,
@ -1929,6 +1929,7 @@ static int shmem_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *s
return error;
}
unlock_page(page);
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &shmem_aops;
inode->i_op = &shmem_symlink_inode_operations;
kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
memcpy(kaddr, symname, len);