linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix page leak during core dump

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Date:	Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:59:45 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Brian Pomerantz <bapper@...atehaven.org>,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix page leak during core dump 

Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:

> No, I think that's wrong: whereas the binfmt_elf one did its
> page_cache_release down below at the bottom of the block, this
> version does it in each subblock,

All but the first, which is why there's not a common one post if-complex.

> so there you're removing the dump_seek success one.  Can't we preserve that
> beauteous macro here and just do...
> ...
> -				DUMP_SEEK(file->f_pos + PAGE_SIZE);
>  				page_cache_release(page);
> +				DUMP_SEEK(file->f_pos + PAGE_SIZE);

Actually, that works just as well, I think.  I like it better than my
suggestion (see email in response to Andrew).

David
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