From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965183AbVHSVfk (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:35:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965180AbVHSVfj (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:35:39 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:1155 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965182AbVHSVfh (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:35:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:35:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Anton Altaparmakov cc: Al Viro , Christoph Hellwig , vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, Andrew Morton , linware@sh.cvut.cz, fsdevel , lkml Subject: Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1124450088.2294.31.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> <20050819142025.GA29811@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1124466246.2294.65.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> <20050819165332.GD29811@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050819180218.GE29811@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050819180037.GA5686@infradead.org> <20050819193834.GF29811@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > You are throwing away the error return from vfs_readlink(). I suspect you > wanted: > > + cookie = ERR_PTR(res); Yes, thanks. Linus