[PATCH] readahead: ->prev_page can overrun the ahead window
If get_next_ra_size() does not grow fast enough, ->prev_page can overrun the ahead window. This means the caller will read the pages from ->ahead_start + ->ahead_size to ->prev_page synchronously. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.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>
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