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* [PATCH] 2.4.13pre3: &i_mapping used where i_mapping needed
@ 2001-10-17 18:36 Chip Salzenberg
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From: Chip Salzenberg @ 2001-10-17 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: Linux Kernel

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In 2.4.13pre3, mm/filemap.c:mincore_page() sets an address_space
pointer to &inode->i_mapping.  This is almost surely an error, because
i_mapping is already a pointer.

A minimal patch is attached.
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Chip Salzenberg               - a.k.a. -              <chip@pobox.com>
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Index: linux/mm/filemap.c
--- linux/mm/filemap.c.old	Tue Oct 16 23:29:08 2001
+++ linux/mm/filemap.c	Wed Oct 17 00:26:37 2001
@@ -2449,5 +2449,5 @@
 {
 	unsigned char present = 0;
-	struct address_space * as = &vma->vm_file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
+	struct address_space * as = vma->vm_file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
 	struct page * page, ** hash = page_hash(as, pgoff);
 

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