Re: Announce: new-aops-1 for 2.6.21-rc3

[Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:17:04PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> OK, I've gone through and fixed several bugs until the thing actually
> survives fsx-linux for both ext2 and ext3 ordered and writeback (both
> when using the new aops, and the legacy prepare_write path). Actually
> ext3 sometimes breaks, but it does in unpatched kernels anyway.

Attached is a bugfix for a crash folks who use an initrd will hit early on.
	--Mark

--
Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
mark.fasheh@oracle.com


From: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>

[PATCH] Populate pagep in simple_write_begin()

This wasn't getting passed back to callers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>

cbf20bf51ddd6434db935ba29f845a85f3b1ec65
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 51f9748..602496a 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -357,6 +357,8 @@ int simple_write_begin(struct file *file
 	if (!page)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	*pagep = page;
+
 	return simple_prepare_write(file, page, from, from+len);
 }
 
-- 
1.3.3


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