Re: [PATCH] swapfile.c

From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 13:48:08 EST


On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 06:28, Andrey Panin wrote:
> On óÂÔ, íÁÒ 02, 2002 at 09:25:16 +0000, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > In 2.5.2 swapfile.c was broken:
> > In sys_swapon() we see
> >
> > swap_file = filp_open(name, O_RDWR, 0);
> > if (IS_ERR(swap_file))
> > goto bad_swap_2;
> >
> > bad_swap_2:
> > ...
> > if (swap_file)
> > filp_close(swap_file, NULL);
> >
> > and this oopses the kernel.
>
> Fixed in -dj tree.

Eww, nice spotting Andries. If it is in the -dj tree, someone want to
push that bit to Linus?

        Robert Love

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