On Fri 11-03-16 11:32:42, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 02/29/2016 02:26 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > >From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > > > >vm_brk is allowed to fail but load_aout_binary simply ignores the error > >and happily continues. I haven't noticed any problem from that in real > >life but later patches will make the failure more likely because > >vm_brk will become killable (resp. mmap_sem for write waiting will become > >killable) so we should be more careful now. > > > >The error handling should be quite straightforward because there are > >calls to vm_mmap which check the error properly already. The only > >notable exception is set_brk which is called after beyond_if label. > >But nothing indicates that we cannot move it above set_binfmt as the two > >do not depend on each other and fail before we do set_binfmt and alter > >reference counting. > > > >Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> > >Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> > >Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > > Acked--by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> thanks! > > [...] > > >@@ -378,7 +381,9 @@ static int load_aout_library(struct file *file) > > "N_TXTOFF is not page aligned. Please convert library: %pD\n", > > file); > > } > >- vm_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss); > >+ retval = vm_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss); > >+ if (IS_ERR_VALUE(retval)) > >+ goto out; > > > > You could have removed the extra whitespace on the line above, which my vim > so prominently highlights :) Fixed > > > read_code(file, start_addr, N_TXTOFF(ex), > > ex.a_text + ex.a_data); > > -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>