A process can enable KSM with the prctl system call. When the process is
forked the KSM flag is inherited by the child process. However if the
process is executing an exec system call directly after the fork, the
KSM setting is cleared. This patch addresses this problem.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: d7597f59d1d3 ("mm: add new api to enable ksm per process")
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Carl Klemm <carl@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Carl Klemm <carl@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched/coredump.h | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
index 0ee96ea7a0e9..205aa9917394 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
@@ -87,8 +87,11 @@ static inline int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm)
#define MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK (1 << MMF_DISABLE_THP)
+#define MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY 29
+#define MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY_MASK (1 << MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY)
+
#define MMF_INIT_MASK (MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK | MMF_DUMP_FILTER_MASK |\
- MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK | MMF_HAS_MDWE_MASK)
+ MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK | MMF_HAS_MDWE_MASK |\
+ MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY_MASK)
-#define MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY 29
#endif /* _LINUX_SCHED_COREDUMP_H */
--
2.39.3
