Re: tmpfs: kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:814

[Hugh Dickins]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 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
> ...
> 
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Is the fix needed on 2.6.25 as well?

That's right: I introduced the bug in 2.6.23, so all since want the fix.

Hugh
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