From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:07:06 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] Cleanup read_pages()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc5~50
X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=029e332ea717810172e965ec50f942755ad0c58a;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[PATCH] Cleanup read_pages()

Current read_pages() assume ->readpages() frees the passed pages.

This patch free the pages in ->read_pages(), if those were remaining in the
pages_list.  So, readpages() just can ignore the remaining pages in
pages_list.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c
index 1ba736ac036..23cb61a01c6 100644
--- a/mm/readahead.c
+++ b/mm/readahead.c
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ static int read_pages(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
 
 	if (mapping->a_ops->readpages) {
 		ret = mapping->a_ops->readpages(filp, mapping, pages, nr_pages);
+		/* Clean up the remaining pages */
+		put_pages_list(pages);
 		goto out;
 	}