From 14fcc23fdc78e9d32372553ccf21758a9bd56fa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:46:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode SuSE's insserve initscript ordering program hits kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:814 on 2.6.26. It's using posix_fadvise on directories, and the shmem_readpage method added in 2.6.23 is letting POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED allocate useless pages to a tmpfs directory, incrementing i_blocks count but never decrementing it. Fix this by assigning shmem_aops (pointing to readpage and writepage and set_page_dirty) only when it's needed, on a regular file or a long symlink. Many thanks to Kel for outstanding bugreport and steps to reproduce it. Reported-by: Kel Modderman Tested-by: Kel Modderman Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed