Re: [patch] fix for the `access beyond end of device' bug of 2.3.[789]

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:50:33 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> I finally spotted and fixed the silly bug. Here it is the fix against 2.3.8:

Whee.. That was indeed a silly bug, and one that was hard as hell to find.
Good work, Andrea!

> BTW, I also fixed all my local-VM (not related to the real 2.3.8) bugs so
> now my 2.3.8-tree "seem" rock solid (no problem with _heavy_ swap+I/O in
> progress).
>
> Now I hope you'll agree to soon merge my pagemap-lru code into the kernel :)).

I'll make a 2.3.9 with this (and some other cleanups and fixes), and then
I can finally start accepting other patches again (assuming it seems to be
stable).

Linus

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