Re: [PATCH] swapfile.c

From: Andrey Panin (pazke@orbita1.ru)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 06:28:24 EST

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On Сбт, Мар 02, 2002 at 09:25:16 +0000, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> In 2.5.2 swapfile.c was broken:
> In sys_swapon() we see
>
> swap_file = filp_open(name, O_RDWR, 0);
> if (IS_ERR(swap_file))
> goto bad_swap_2;
>
> bad_swap_2:
> ...
> if (swap_file)
> filp_close(swap_file, NULL);
>
> and this oopses the kernel.

Fixed in -dj tree.

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