From: Suzuki Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:29:06 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] madvise: Avoid returning error code -EBADF for anonymous mappings X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc5~82 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1bef40032992320dd25a266fc166bfb8fa3f2f59;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] madvise: Avoid returning error code -EBADF for anonymous mappings Revert this recent correctness change: Douglas Crosher reported that it broke an existing application, and that madvise() works without error on anonymous mappings on Solaris. This means that madvise() will remain non-standards-compliant: we should return -EBADF for all requests against non-file-backed vma's, but Linux only does this for MADV_WILLNEED requests. Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 4454936f87d..20e075d1c64 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma, { struct file *file = vma->vm_file; + if (!file) + return -EBADF; + if (file->f_mapping->a_ops->get_xip_page) { /* no bad return value, but ignore advice */ return 0; @@ -141,11 +144,7 @@ static long madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int behavior) { - struct file *filp = vma->vm_file; - long error = -EBADF; - - if (!filp) - goto out; + long error; switch (behavior) { case MADV_NORMAL: @@ -166,8 +165,6 @@ madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev, error = -EINVAL; break; } - -out: return error; }