When tmpfs is mounted with a size less than one page the number of blocks
is set to 0 which makes the tmpfs mount unlimited. This can lead to a quick
and surprising death is someone typos a tmpfs mount command and writes to much.

tmpfs can still be mounted as unlimited if size or nr_blocks is exactly 0.

Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Somehow I was a moron and didn't notice the compiler shouting insults at me,
here is the correct version of the patch. Sorry for the noise :-(

 mm/shmem.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 253d205..86b47d8 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2138,6 +2138,8 @@ static int shmem_parse_options(char *options, int *mode, 
uid_t *uid,
                        if (*rest)
                                goto bad_val;
                        *blocks = size >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+                       if (size && *blocks == 0)
+                               *blocks = 1;
                } else if (!strcmp(this_char,"nr_blocks")) {
                        *blocks = memparse(value,&rest);
                        if (*rest)
-- 
1.5.1.6

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