[Devel] Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside

Kirill Korotaev dev at sw.ru
Fri Mar 10 00:46:40 PST 2006


>>+	page = find_or_create_page(mapping, 0,
>>+			mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | gfp_mask);
> 
> 
>>+int page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len)
>>+{
>>+	return __page_symlink(inode, symname, len, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> 
> s/GFP_KERNEL/0/; if somebody has e.g. GFP_NOFS in their mapping flags,
> you end up breaking their code.  We really pass extra flags to be added
> to default ones; page_symlink() should pass 0.
thanks for noticing this.
fixed and resend.

Thanks,
Kirill





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