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authorsuzuki <suzuki@in.ibm.com>2005-07-27 20:43:59 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-07-28 01:25:54 +0200
commit165cd40235732644b1856a5ed5e158c9b93f6010 (patch)
treec68180b6d700953530c8a7852a095f9ac4840345 /mm/madvise.c
parent[PATCH] consolidate CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT handling (diff)
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[PATCH] madvise() does not always return -EBADF on non-file mapped area
The madvise() system call returns -EBADF for areas which does not map to files, only for *behaviour* request MADV_WILLNEED. According to man pages, madvise returns : EBADF - the map exists, but the area maps something that isn't a file. Fixes bug 2995. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 73180a22877e..c8c01a12fea4 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -83,9 +83,6 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
{
struct file *file = vma->vm_file;
- if (!file)
- return -EBADF;
-
if (file->f_mapping->a_ops->get_xip_page) {
/* no bad return value, but ignore advice */
return 0;
@@ -140,11 +137,16 @@ static long madvise_dontneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
return 0;
}
-static long madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev,
- unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int behavior)
+static long
+madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev,
+ unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int behavior)
{
+ struct file *filp = vma->vm_file;
long error = -EBADF;
+ if (!filp)
+ goto out;
+
switch (behavior) {
case MADV_NORMAL:
case MADV_SEQUENTIAL:
@@ -165,6 +167,7 @@ static long madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev
break;
}
+out:
return error;
}