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tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode
authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:46:19 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:30:20 +0000 (16:30 -0700)
commit14fcc23fdc78e9d32372553ccf21758a9bd56fa1
tree594fc0e0e85c03205ba2d80a4b4e0a8fc6ffaa8a
parentca5b172bd2b2fe489e7ba11cedd46ddf772d132f
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>
mm/shmem.c