2.6.33-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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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;
 }


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