Re: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache crash

[Francis Moreau]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Dan Magenheimer
<dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Seth Jennings [mailto:sjenning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 1:19 PM
>> To: gregkh@xxxxxxx
>> Cc: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx; ngupta@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>> francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx; Dan Magenheimer; Seth Jennings
>> Subject: [PATCH] staging: zcache: fix cleancache crash
>>
>> After commit, c5f5c4db, cleancache crashes on the first
>> successful get. This was caused by a remaining virt_to_page()
>> call in zcache_pampd_get_data_and_free() that only gets
>> run in the cleancache path.
>>
>> The patch converts the virt_to_page() to struct page
>> casting like was done for other instances in c5f5c4db.
>>
>> Based on 3.1-rc4
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Yep, this appears to fix it!  Hopefully Francis can confirm.

Ok I can give this a try and let you know.

In the meantime, as I said to you privately, 3.1-rc3 doesn't have the
issue whereas 3.1-rc5 has.

Thanks
-- 
Francis
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