1. 03 Jun, 2004 1 commit
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] ramfs o_sync oops fix · 97e012bb
      Andrew Morton authored
      Writing to ramfs files with O_SYNC dereferences null in mpage_writepages(),
      due to null a_ops->writepage.  The call path is
      
      	generic_file_aio_write_nolock
      	->generic_osync_inode
      	  ->write_inode_now
      	    ->__writeback_single_inode
      	      ->__sync_single_inode
      	        ->do_writepages
      	          ->mpage_writepages
      
      The best fix for this is to visit all ram-backed filesystems and give them a
      no-op a_ops.writepages.  But baling out if the file is memory-backed is a
      sufficient coverall and is how we handle this in __filemap_fdatawrite().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      97e012bb
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