From a649fd9271773dd0f78e2b9f347bcceecb8827f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:09:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] invalidate: remove_mapping() fix If remove_mapping() failed to remove the page from its mapping, don't go and mark it not uptodate! Makes kernel go dead. (Actually, I don't think the ClearPageUptodate is needed there at all). Says Nick Piggin: "Right, it isn't needed because at this point the page is guaranteed by remove_mapping to have no references (except us) and cannot pick up any new ones because it is removed from pagecache. We can delete it." Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/truncate.c | 1 - mm/vmscan.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index 11ca480701dd..e07b1e682c38 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ invalidate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page) return 0; ret = remove_mapping(mapping, page); - ClearPageUptodate(page); return ret; } diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index eca70310adb2..af73c14f9d88 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -378,6 +378,12 @@ static pageout_t pageout(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) return PAGE_CLEAN; } +/* + * Attempt to detach a locked page from its ->mapping. If it is dirty or if + * someone else has a ref on the page, abort and return 0. If it was + * successfully detached, return 1. Assumes the caller has a single ref on + * this page. + */ int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page) { BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));