Hi, The mmap() call fails when addr is specified, MAP_FIXED is cleared in flags and no address space can be allocated either at addr or above it. This is a legal request and it should not fail as long as there is space available below addr. Following is a patch that fixes the problem. This is nothing new -- I already submitted a similar patch against 2.4.0-test4 once upon a time. This patch is clean(er), though, and I believe it can be safely applied to the upcoming 2.4.5 release. A simple test case to trigger the current mmap() bad behaviour for 32-bit CPUs is something like: fd = open("/dev/zero", O_RDONLY); p = mmap((void *)0xfffff000, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); With my patch the code does not fail anymore -- p is set to an available address lower than 0xfffff000. The bug was discovered when tracking down the reason of dlopen() failures when called from statically linked binaries on MIPS/Linux. The patch fixes them. Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available + diff -up --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.4.macro/mm/mmap.c linux-2.4.4/mm/mmap.c --- linux-2.4.4.macro/mm/mmap.c Tue May 1 17:24:25 2001 +++ linux-2.4.4/mm/mmap.c Tue May 1 18:23:25 2001 @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file if ((len = PAGE_ALIGN(len)) == 0) return addr; - if (len > TASK_SIZE || addr > TASK_SIZE-len) + if (len > TASK_SIZE) return -EINVAL; /* offset overflow? */ @@ -405,9 +405,15 @@ static inline unsigned long arch_get_unm if (len > TASK_SIZE) return -ENOMEM; - if (!addr) - addr = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE; - addr = PAGE_ALIGN(addr); + + if (addr) { + addr = PAGE_ALIGN(addr); + vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr); + if (TASK_SIZE - len >= addr && + (!vma || addr + len <= vma->vm_start)) + return addr; + } + addr = PAGE_ALIGN(TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE); for (vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr); ; vma = vma->vm_next) { /* At this point: (!vma || addr < vma->vm_end). */ @@ -425,6 +431,8 @@ extern unsigned long arch_get_unmapped_a unsigned long get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags) { if (flags & MAP_FIXED) { + if (addr > TASK_SIZE - len) + return -EINVAL; if (addr & ~PAGE_MASK) return -EINVAL; return addr;