Re: 2.5.70-bk4+: oops by mc -v /proc/bus/pci/00/00.0

[Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)]

Alex Riesen <fork0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> MC (Midnight Commander 4.6.0 Gentoo) segfaults trying to mmap files
>  under /proc/bus/pci.

Thanks.  This will fix it up.

It's pretty lame.  Really we need a proper vma constructor
somewhere.

diff -puN mm/mmap.c~pci-mmap-fix mm/mmap.c
--- 25/mm/mmap.c~pci-mmap-fix	2003-05-31 19:49:20.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/mm/mmap.c	2003-05-31 19:49:35.000000000 -0700
@@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ munmap_back:
 	vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
 	vma->vm_file = NULL;
 	vma->vm_private_data = NULL;
+	vma->vm_next = NULL;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->shared);
 
 	if (file) {

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