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SubjectRe: 2.4.17rc2aa1
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 10:27:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Anyways here the fix (untested as usual :)
> >
> > --- 2.4.17rc2aa1/fs/buffer.c.~1~ Wed Dec 19 03:43:24 2001
> > +++ 2.4.17rc2aa1/fs/buffer.c Thu Dec 20 19:02:02 2001
> > @@ -2337,7 +2337,7 @@
> > struct buffer_head *bh;
> >
> > page = find_or_create_page(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping, index, GFP_NOFS);
> > - if (IS_ERR(page))
> > + if (!page)
>
> Isn't this in 2.4.17 already? Marcelo, please check.

it isn't in 2.4.17-rc2.

>
> > +++ 2.4.17rc2aa1/mm/filemap.c Thu Dec 20 19:01:53 2001
> > @@ -942,7 +942,7 @@
> > spin_unlock(&pagecache_lock);
> > if (!page) {
> > struct page *newpage = alloc_page(gfp_mask);
> > - page = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> > + page = NULL;
>
> Don't be silly, just remove the line (page _is_ NULL already, we just
> checked).

indeed (compiler could optimize it away but nicer code to delete it).

Andrea
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