-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Badari Pulavarty Ran into BUG() while doing madvise(REMOVE) testing. If we are punching a hole into shared memory segment using madvise(REMOVE) and the entire hole is below the indirect blocks, we hit following assert. BUG_ON(limit <= SHMEM_NR_DIRECT); Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- mm/shmem.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.19.1.orig/mm/shmem.c +++ linux-2.6.19.1/mm/shmem.c @@ -515,7 +515,12 @@ static void shmem_truncate_range(struct size = SHMEM_NR_DIRECT; nr_swaps_freed = shmem_free_swp(ptr+idx, ptr+size); } - if (!topdir) + + /* + * If there are no indirect blocks or we are punching a hole + * below indirect blocks, nothing to be done. + */ + if (!topdir || (punch_hole && (limit <= SHMEM_NR_DIRECT))) goto done2; BUG_ON(limit <= SHMEM_NR_DIRECT); -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/