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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2006-10-10 04:36:54 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-09 19:51:18 -0700
commitebf7a227dd1d810203a19642655d2fa293f395dd (patch)
tree28b91319c3e792b79b405addd342288f43629a7e
parent1601ff0e29cfe112b06aa9bb2fb3519a1125baaa (diff)
[PATCH] mm: bug in set_page_dirty_buffers
This was triggered, but not the fault of, the dirty page accounting patches. Suitable for -stable as well, after it goes upstream. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000004c EIP is at _spin_lock+0x12/0x66 Call Trace: [<401766e7>] __set_page_dirty_buffers+0x15/0xc0 [<401401e7>] set_page_dirty+0x2c/0x51 [<40140db2>] set_page_dirty_balance+0xb/0x3b [<40145d29>] __do_fault+0x1d8/0x279 [<40147059>] __handle_mm_fault+0x125/0x951 [<401133f1>] do_page_fault+0x440/0x59f [<4034d0c1>] error_code+0x39/0x40 [<08048a33>] 0x8048a33 Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 16cfbcd254f..eeb8ac1aa85 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -701,7 +701,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mark_buffer_dirty_inode);
*/
int __set_page_dirty_buffers(struct page *page)
{
- struct address_space * const mapping = page->mapping;
+ struct address_space * const mapping = page_mapping(page);
+
+ if (unlikely(!mapping))
+ return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
if (page_has_buffers(page)) {