Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] mm: fix find_get_page() for shmem exceptional entries

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Bug was added in commit v3.0-7291-g8079b1c (mm: clarify the radix_tree exceptional cases)
So, v3.1 and v3.2 affected.

Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
It should return NULL, otherwise the caller will be very surprised.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov<khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  mm/filemap.c |    1 +
  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 518223b..ca98cb5 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -693,6 +693,7 @@ repeat:
  			 * here as an exceptional entry: so return it without
  			 * attempting to raise page count.
  			 */
+			page = NULL;
  			goto out;
  		}
  		if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))


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