I've noticed that we allocated unneeded page for cache on read beyond
i_size. Simple test case (I checked it on ramfs):

$ touch testfile
$ cat testfile

It triggers 'no_cached_page' code path in do_generic_file_read().

Looks like it's regression since commit a32ea1e. Let's fix it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>
---
 mm/filemap.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 1905f0e..b1a4d35 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1163,6 +1163,10 @@ static void do_generic_file_read(struct file *filp, 
loff_t *ppos,
                loff_t isize;
                unsigned long nr, ret;
 
+               isize = i_size_read(inode);
+               if (!isize || index > (isize - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT)
+                       goto out;
+
                cond_resched();
 find_page:
                page = find_get_page(mapping, index);
-- 
1.8.4.rc2

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