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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-05-20 21:27:41 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-05-28 14:49:27 +0200
commitca39d651d17df49b6d11f851d56c0ce0ce01ea1a (patch)
tree4bb546d7c8897f028dba7a099799b777e3602cb4 /fs/splice.c
parenta82c53a0e3f57f02782330372b7adad67b417645 (diff)
splice: handle try_to_release_page() failure
splice currently assumes that try_to_release_page() always suceeds, but it can return failure. If it does, we cannot steal the page. Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/splice.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/splice.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index a048ad2130c..aa5f6f60b30 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ static int page_cache_pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
*/
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
- if (PagePrivate(page))
- try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (PagePrivate(page) && !try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL))
+ goto out_unlock;
/*
* If we succeeded in removing the mapping, set LRU flag
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static int page_cache_pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
* Raced with truncate or failed to remove page from current
* address space, unlock and return failure.
*/
+out_unlock:
unlock_page(page);
return 1;
}