2.6.33-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> commit bee4c36a5cf5c9f63ce1d7372aa62045fbd16d47 upstream. Up to 2.6.22, you could use remap_file_pages(2) on a tmpfs file or a shared mapping of /dev/zero or a shared anonymous mapping. In 2.6.23 we disabled it by default, but set VM_CAN_NONLINEAR to enable it on safe mappings. We made sure to set it in shmem_mmap() for tmpfs files, but missed it in shmem_zero_setup() for the others. Fix that at last. Reported-by: Kenny Simpson <theonetrueke...@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de> --- mm/shmem.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2701,5 +2701,6 @@ int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_stru fput(vma->vm_file); vma->vm_file = file; vma->vm_ops = &shmem_vm_ops; + vma->vm_flags |= VM_CAN_NONLINEAR; return 0; } _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable