Exit from the loop over the VMA in the case when the flags contain only an MS_ASYNC and start < vm_start. In this case msync() would return with -ENOMEM anyway so make it return early. Signed-off-by: Nikita Ermakov <sh1r4s3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/msync.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c index 69c6d2029531..ed20c3621d4c 100644 --- a/mm/msync.c +++ b/mm/msync.c @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(msync, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags) goto out_unlock; /* Here start < vma->vm_end. */ if (start < vma->vm_start) { + if (flags == MS_ASYNC) + goto out_unlock; start = vma->vm_start; if (start >= end) goto out_unlock; base-commit: 6824a8a9b4861d7df7ee132a952bdf6f84a99cb8 -- 2.28.0