Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> 
> It does disable link caching.  But I didn't make this up.  This is exactly 
> what smbfs uses.  I just copied smbfs given ncpfs copies almost everything 
> smbfs does anyway...

Can you test whether the untested test-patch I sent out seems to work for 
your case that bugs out? You'll probably get a few new "initialization 
from incompatible pointer type" warnings, but I do believe that they 
should be harmless at least on normal architectures.

		Linus
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