When the dump cannot occur most likely because of a full file system
and the page to be written is the zero page, the call to
page_cache_release() is missed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Pomerantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index a2fceba..9cc4f0a 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1704,7 +1704,10 @@ static int elf_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs 
*regs, struct file *file)
                                DUMP_SEEK(PAGE_SIZE);
                        } else {
                                if (page == ZERO_PAGE(addr)) {
-                                       DUMP_SEEK(PAGE_SIZE);
+                                       if (!dump_seek(file, PAGE_SIZE)) {
+                                               page_cache_release(page);
+                                               goto end_coredump;
+                                       }
                                } else {
                                        void *kaddr;
                                        flush_cache_page(vma, addr,
-
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