From: Hugh Dickins commit bee4c36a5cf5c9f63ce1d7372aa62045fbd16d47 upstream. Up to 2.6.22, you could use remap_file_pages(2) on a tmpfs file or a shared mapping of /dev/zero or a shared anonymous mapping. In 2.6.23 we disabled it by default, but set VM_CAN_NONLINEAR to enable it on safe mappings. We made sure to set it in shmem_mmap() for tmpfs files, but missed it in shmem_zero_setup() for the others. Fix that at last. Reported-by: Kenny Simpson Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/shmem.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2691,5 +2691,6 @@ int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_stru fput(vma->vm_file); vma->vm_file = file; vma->vm_ops = &shmem_vm_ops; + vma->vm_flags |= VM_CAN_NONLINEAR; return 0; } -- 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/