Re: Error in get_swap_page? (2.5.44)

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>]

commence  Rasmus Andersen quotation:

> Unless I am mistaken, we return stuff (entry) from the local 
> stack in swapfile.c::get_swap_page. Am I mistaken?

Wouldn't this only be a problem if a *pointer* to it was being
returned?

> Code in question:
>
> swp_entry_t get_swap_page(void)
> {
>         struct swap_info_struct * p;
>         unsigned long offset;
>         swp_entry_t entry;
>         int type, wrapped = 0;
>
>         entry.val = 0;  /* Out of memory */
> [...]
>
> out:
>         swap_list_unlock();
>         return entry;
> }

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