[PATCH] fix page leak during core dump
When the dump cannot occur most likely because of a full file system and
the page to be written is the zero page, the call to page_cache_release()
is missed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Pomerantz <bapper@mvista.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
index 47d6d49..f3ddca4 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
@@ -1480,8 +1480,8 @@
DUMP_SEEK(file->f_pos + PAGE_SIZE);
}
else if (page == ZERO_PAGE(addr)) {
- DUMP_SEEK(file->f_pos + PAGE_SIZE);
page_cache_release(page);
+ DUMP_SEEK(file->f_pos + PAGE_SIZE);
}
else {
void *kaddr;