[PATCH BUGFIX] mm: fix find_get_page() for shmem exceptional entries

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Date: Tue Feb 07 2012 - 05:32:02 EST


It should return NULL, otherwise the caller will be very surprised.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 518223b..ca98cb5 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -693,6 +693,7 @@ repeat:
* here as an exceptional entry: so return it without
* attempting to raise page count.
*/
+ page = NULL;
goto out;
}
if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))

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