Re: 2.6.13-mm3 BUG in ntfs or slab

[Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 16:17 +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> This BUG causes freeze of applications, such as beep-media-player (e.g.
> uninterruptible sleep in futex with no wake), ls (un. sleep, i don't know
> where), bash, when listing ntfs dirs.

Ok, it is official.  I can't read.  All my fault.  Brown paperbag time.

This should fix it:

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/malloc.h b/fs/ntfs/malloc.h
--- a/fs/ntfs/malloc.h
+++ b/fs/ntfs/malloc.h
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static inline void *__ntfs_malloc(unsign
 	if (likely(size <= PAGE_SIZE)) {
 		BUG_ON(!size);
 		/* kmalloc() has per-CPU caches so is faster for now. */
-		return kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, gfp_mask);
+		return kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM);
 		/* return (void *)__get_free_page(gfp_mask); */
 	}
 	if (likely(size >> PAGE_SHIFT < num_physpages))

Best regards,

        Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
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