linux-kernel - Re: tmpfs: kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:814

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:31:37 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Kel Modderman <kel@...ku42.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tmpfs: kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:814

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 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
...

> Cc: stable@...nel.org

Is the fix needed on 2.6.25 as well?

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