When reserving stack space for a new process, make sure we're not attempting to allocate more than rlimit allows. Also, reserve the same stack size independent of page size. This fixes a bug cause by b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba "mm: variable length argument support" and unmasked by fc63cf237078c86214abcb2ee9926d8ad289da9b "exec: setup_arg_pages() fails to return errors". Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- Update commit message to include patch name and SHA1 of related patches. fs/exec.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: clone1/fs/exec.c =================================================================== --- clone1.orig/fs/exec.c +++ clone1/fs/exec.c @@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ static int shift_arg_pages(struct vm_are return 0; } -#define EXTRA_STACK_VM_PAGES 20 /* random */ +#define EXTRA_STACK_VM_SIZE 81920UL /* randomly 20 4K pages */ /* * Finalizes the stack vm_area_struct. The flags and permissions are updated, @@ -627,10 +627,13 @@ int setup_arg_pages(struct linux_binprm goto out_unlock; } + stack_base = min(EXTRA_STACK_VM_SIZE, + current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur) - + PAGE_SIZE; #ifdef CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP - stack_base = vma->vm_end + EXTRA_STACK_VM_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE; + stack_base = vma->vm_end + stack_base; #else - stack_base = vma->vm_start - EXTRA_STACK_VM_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE; + stack_base = vma->vm_start - stack_base; #endif ret = expand_stack(vma, stack_base); if (ret) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html