linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache crash

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Date:	Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:55:52 +0200
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	ngupta@...are.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	francis.moro@...il.com, Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache crash

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 07:16:10AM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > From: Dan Magenheimer
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 2:56 PM
> > To: Seth Jennings; gregkh@...e.de
> > Cc: devel@...verdev.osuosl.org; linux-mm@...ck.org; ngupta@...are.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> > francis.moro@...il.com
> > Subject: RE: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache crash
> > 
> > > From: Seth Jennings [mailto:sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 1:19 PM
> > > To: gregkh@...e.de
> > > Cc: devel@...verdev.osuosl.org; linux-mm@...ck.org; ngupta@...are.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> > > francis.moro@...il.com; Dan Magenheimer; Seth Jennings
> > > Subject: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache crash
> > >
> > > After commit, c5f5c4db, cleancache crashes on the first
> > > successful get. This was caused by a remaining virt_to_page()
> > > call in zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free() that only gets
> > > run in the cleancache path.
> > >
> > > The patch converts the virt_to_page() to struct page
> > > casting like was done for other instances in c5f5c4db.
> > >
> > > Based on 3.1-rc4
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Yep, this appears to fix it!  Hopefully Francis can confirm.
> > 
> > Greg, ideally apply this additional fix rather than do the revert
> > of the original patch suggested in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/13/234
> > 
> > Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
> 
> 
> Greg, Francis has confirmed offlist that Seth's fix below
> has fixed his issue as well.  Please apply, hopefully as
> soon as possible and before 3.1 goes final!

Due to the loss of kernel.org, it might miss it, but don't worry, that's
what stable kernel releases are for :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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