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author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2006-10-10 04:36:54 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-09 19:51:18 -0700 |
commit | ebf7a227dd1d810203a19642655d2fa293f395dd (patch) | |
tree | 28b91319c3e792b79b405addd342288f43629a7e /fs/buffer.c | |
parent | 1601ff0e29cfe112b06aa9bb2fb3519a1125baaa (diff) | |
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[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 5 |
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)) { |