Re: [PATCH] Fix a bad bug in read_cache_page_async()

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 08:19:46 EST


On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:02:01PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Fix a bad bug in read_cache_page_async() introduced in commit:
>
> 6fe6900e1e5b6fa9e5c59aa5061f244fe3f467e2
>
> This adds:
>
> mark_page_accessed(page)
>
> into the error handling path in read_cache_page_async(). In such a case,
> 'page' holds the error code.

Obvious thinko. Thanks, ack.

>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> mm/filemap.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 9e56fd1..10d4fcf 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -1784,7 +1784,7 @@ struct page *read_cache_page_async(struct address_space *mapping,
> retry:
> page = __read_cache_page(mapping, index, filler, data);
> if (IS_ERR(page))
> - goto out;
> + goto error;
> mark_page_accessed(page);
> if (PageUptodate(page))
> goto out;
> @@ -1803,9 +1803,11 @@ retry:
> if (err < 0) {
> page_cache_release(page);
> page = ERR_PTR(err);
> + goto error;
> }
> - out:
> +out:
> mark_page_accessed(page);
> +error:
> return page;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_cache_page_async);
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