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

Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19T20:55:36Z

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