The patch titled Subject: mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention-v2 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention-v2.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention-v2.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention-v2.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Leon Yu <chianglungyu@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention-v2 Also suggested by Michal Hocko, we can clean up vma_adjust() a bit as anon_vma_clone() now does the work. Signed-off-by: Leon Yu <chianglungyu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/mmap.c~mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention-v2 mm/mmap.c --- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention-v2 +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -774,10 +774,8 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next-> importer->anon_vma = exporter->anon_vma; error = anon_vma_clone(importer, exporter); - if (error) { - importer->anon_vma = NULL; + if (error) return error; - } } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from chianglungyu@xxxxxxxxx are mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention.patch mm-fix-anon_vma-degree-underflow-in-anon_vma-endless-growing-prevention-v2.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html