Re: 2.4.17rc2aa1

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:27:37 -0800 (PST)


On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Anyways here the fix (untested as usual :)
>
> --- 2.4.17rc2aa1/fs/buffer.c.~1~ Wed Dec 19 03:43:24 2001
> +++ 2.4.17rc2aa1/fs/buffer.c Thu Dec 20 19:02:02 2001
> @@ -2337,7 +2337,7 @@
> struct buffer_head *bh;
>
> page = find_or_create_page(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping, index, GFP_NOFS);
> - if (IS_ERR(page))
> + if (!page)

Isn't this in 2.4.17 already? Marcelo, please check.

> +++ 2.4.17rc2aa1/mm/filemap.c Thu Dec 20 19:01:53 2001
> @@ -942,7 +942,7 @@
> spin_unlock(&pagecache_lock);
> if (!page) {
> struct page *newpage = alloc_page(gfp_mask);
> - page = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> + page = NULL;

Don't be silly, just remove the line (page _is_ NULL already, we just
checked).

Linus

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