If an unmapped region was found and the flag is MS_ASYNC (without
MS_INVALIDATE) there is nothing to do and the result would be always
-ENOMEM, so return immediately.
Signed-off-by: Nikita Ermakov <sh1r4s3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/msync.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c
index 69c6d2029531..137d1c104f3e 100644
--- a/mm/msync.c
+++ b/mm/msync.c
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(msync, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)
goto out;
/*
* If the interval [start,end) covers some unmapped address ranges,
- * just ignore them, but return -ENOMEM at the end.
+ * just ignore them, but return -ENOMEM at the end. Besides, if the
+ * flag is MS_ASYNC (w/o MS_INVALIDATE) the result would be -ENOMEM
+ * anyway and there is nothing left to do, so return immediately.
*/
mmap_read_lock(mm);
vma = find_vma(mm, start);
@@ -69,6 +71,8 @@ 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
