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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2007-03-16 13:38:10 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-03-23 12:49:22 -0700
commit522850039c6c8a7ff8df8f9b6b118141aca50d62 (patch)
treed67638d3a0156ab1adcb57c51f45614bd459c0f0 /mm
parent7639e962234c76031d1ddf436def7fd9602be560 (diff)
mm: fix madvise infinine loop
madvise(MADV_REMOVE) can go into an infinite loop or cause an oops if the call covers a region from the start of a vma, and extending past that vma. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 4e196155a0c3..77916e9fc52b 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -155,11 +155,14 @@ static long madvise_dontneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
* Other filesystems return -ENOSYS.
*/
static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ struct vm_area_struct **prev,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
struct address_space *mapping;
loff_t offset, endoff;
+ *prev = vma;
+
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_NONLINEAR|VM_HUGETLB))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -199,7 +202,7 @@ madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev,
error = madvise_behavior(vma, prev, start, end, behavior);
break;
case MADV_REMOVE:
- error = madvise_remove(vma, start, end);
+ error = madvise_remove(vma, prev, start, end);
break;
case MADV_WILLNEED: