On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:11:55PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote: > > Since commit 62c230b, swap_writepage() calls direct_IO on swap files. > However, in that case page isn't redirtied if I/O fails, and is therefore > handled afterwards as if it has been successfully written to the swap > file, leading to memory corruption when the page is eventually swapped > back in. > This patch sets the page dirty when direct_IO() fails. It fixes a memory > corruption that happened while using swap-over-NFS. > > Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Thanks Jerome. I've added Andrew to the cc and this should also be considered a candidate for 3.8-stable. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>