On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:11:55PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote: > > Since commit 62c230b, swap_writepage() calls direct_IO on swap files. > However, in that case page isn't redirtied if I/O fails, and is therefore > handled afterwards as if it has been successfully written to the swap > file, leading to memory corruption when the page is eventually swapped > back in. > This patch sets the page dirty when direct_IO() fails. It fixes a memory > corruption that happened while using swap-over-NFS. > > Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarc...@redhat.com>
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