2001-02-06 17:30:31

by Daniel Phillips

Subject: [PATCH] create_buffers silently fails for size > PAGE_SIZE

This is in the Kernel Janitor category, no critical bugs are caused by
this. I also wonder why we have NR_SIZES = 7.

--- ../2.4.1.clean/fs/buffer.c Mon Jan 15 21:42:32 2001
+++ fs/buffer.c Tue Feb 6 17:41:18 2001
@@ -1296,6 +1296,7 @@
{
struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
long offset;
+ if (size > PAGE_SIZE) BUG();

try_again:
head = NULL;

--
Daniel