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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/