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authorJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2012-07-25 21:58:48 +0200
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>2012-07-25 21:58:48 +0200
commit8407884dd9164ec18ed2afc00f56b87e36c51fcf (patch)
treeb6ea42c231d7d39f454de28a068d78ce11709770 /mm/madvise.c
parentsata_dwc_460ex: device tree may specify dma_channel (diff)
parentMerge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' [vanilla Linus master] into libata-dev.git/upstream
Two bits were appended to the end of the bitfield list in struct scsi_device. Resolve that conflict by including both bits. Conflicts: include/scsi/scsi_device.h
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c18
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index deff1b64a08c..14d260fa0d17 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/ksm.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/file.h>
/*
* Any behaviour which results in changes to the vma->vm_flags needs to
@@ -204,14 +205,16 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
{
loff_t offset;
int error;
+ struct file *f;
*prev = NULL; /* tell sys_madvise we drop mmap_sem */
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_NONLINEAR|VM_HUGETLB))
return -EINVAL;
- if (!vma->vm_file || !vma->vm_file->f_mapping
- || !vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host) {
+ f = vma->vm_file;
+
+ if (!f || !f->f_mapping || !f->f_mapping->host) {
return -EINVAL;
}
@@ -221,11 +224,18 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
offset = (loff_t)(start - vma->vm_start)
+ ((loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT);
- /* filesystem's fallocate may need to take i_mutex */
+ /*
+ * Filesystem's fallocate may need to take i_mutex. We need to
+ * explicitly grab a reference because the vma (and hence the
+ * vma's reference to the file) can go away as soon as we drop
+ * mmap_sem.
+ */
+ get_file(f);
up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
- error = do_fallocate(vma->vm_file,
+ error = do_fallocate(f,
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
offset, end - start);
+ fput(f);
down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
return error;
}