Re: [PATCH]fix page release issue in filemap_fault

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:15:23 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 23:28 +0800, Yan Zheng wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > find_lock_page increases page's usage count, we should decrease it
> > before return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng<[email protected]>
> 
> Nice catch, .23 material?

An obvious fix for a memory leak.  I think it should go in.

> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>

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