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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-07-29 21:09:39 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-07-29 21:09:39 -0300
commit73bcc49959e4e40911dd0dd634bf1b353827df66 (patch)
tree6b0c1d440c490a65c51ab5cf5aee7095cb4089d3 /mm/madvise.c
parent8447c4d15e357a458c9051ddc84aa6c8b9c27000 (diff)
parent28a33cbc24e4256c143dce96c7d93bf423229f92 (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.5'
Linux 3.5 * tag 'v3.5': (1242 commits) Linux 3.5 Remove SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK system state kdb: Switch to nolock variants of kmsg_dump functions printk: Implement some unlocked kmsg_dump functions printk: Remove kdb_syslog_data kdb: Revive dmesg command dm raid1: set discard_zeroes_data_unsupported dm thin: do not send discards to shared blocks dm raid1: fix crash with mirror recovery and discard pnfs-obj: Fix __r4w_get_page when offset is beyond i_size pnfs-obj: don't leak objio_state if ore_write/read fails ore: Unlock r4w pages in exact reverse order of locking ore: Remove support of partial IO request (NFS crash) ore: Fix NFS crash by supporting any unaligned RAID IO UBIFS: fix a bug in empty space fix-up cx25821: Remove bad strcpy to read-only char* HID: hid-multitouch: add support for Zytronic panels MIPS: PCI: Move fixups from __init to __devinit. MIPS: Fix bug.h MIPS build regression MIPS: sync-r4k: remove redundant irq operation ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c18
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index deff1b64a08..14d260fa0d1 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/ksm.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/file.h>
/*
* Any behaviour which results in changes to the vma->vm_flags needs to
@@ -204,14 +205,16 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
{
loff_t offset;
int error;
+ struct file *f;
*prev = NULL; /* tell sys_madvise we drop mmap_sem */
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_NONLINEAR|VM_HUGETLB))
return -EINVAL;
- if (!vma->vm_file || !vma->vm_file->f_mapping
- || !vma->vm_file->f_mapping->host) {
+ f = vma->vm_file;
+
+ if (!f || !f->f_mapping || !f->f_mapping->host) {
return -EINVAL;
}
@@ -221,11 +224,18 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
offset = (loff_t)(start - vma->vm_start)
+ ((loff_t)vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT);
- /* filesystem's fallocate may need to take i_mutex */
+ /*
+ * Filesystem's fallocate may need to take i_mutex. We need to
+ * explicitly grab a reference because the vma (and hence the
+ * vma's reference to the file) can go away as soon as we drop
+ * mmap_sem.
+ */
+ get_file(f);
up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
- error = do_fallocate(vma->vm_file,
+ error = do_fallocate(f,
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
offset, end - start);
+ fput(f);
down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
return error;
}