On Wed 18-04-18 20:43:11, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > Don't complain if IS_ERR_VALUE(),
> >
> > this is simply wrong. We do want to warn on the failure because this is
> > when the actual clash happens. We should just warn on EEXIST.
>
> >From 25442cdd31aa5cc8522923a0153a77dfd2ebc832 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:38:15 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] fs, elf: don't complain MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE unless -EEXIST
> error.
>
> Commit 4ed28639519c7bad ("fs, elf: drop MAP_FIXED usage from elf_map") is
> printing spurious messages under memory pressure due to map_addr == -ENOMEM.
>
> 9794 (a.out): Uhuuh, elf segment at 00007f2e34738000(fffffffffffffff4) requested but the memory is mapped already
> 14104 (a.out): Uhuuh, elf segment at 00007f34fd76c000(fffffffffffffff4) requested but the memory is mapped already
> 16843 (a.out): Uhuuh, elf segment at 00007f930ecc7000(fffffffffffffff4) requested but the memory is mapped already
>
> Complain only if -EEXIST, and use %px for printing the address.
Yes this is better. But...
[...]
> - if ((type & MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE) && BAD_ADDR(map_addr))
> - pr_info("%d (%s): Uhuuh, elf segment at %p requested but the memory is mapped already\n",
> - task_pid_nr(current), current->comm,
> - (void *)addr);
> + if ((type & MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE) && map_addr == -EEXIST)
... please use PTR_ERR(map_addr) == -EEXIST
then you can add
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> + pr_info("%d (%s): Uhuuh, elf segment at %px requested but the memory is mapped already\n",
> + task_pid_nr(current), current->comm, (void *)addr);
>
> return(map_addr);
> }
> --
> 1.8.3.1
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
