The patch titled get_user_pages(): fix possible page leak on oom has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is get_user_pages-fix-possible-page-leak-on-oom.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 *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: get_user_pages(): fix possible page leak on oom From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> get_user_pages() must not return the error when i != 0. When pages != NULL we have i get_page()'ed pages. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/memory.c~get_user_pages-fix-possible-page-leak-on-oom mm/memory.c --- a/mm/memory.c~get_user_pages-fix-possible-page-leak-on-oom +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *t * be processed until returning to user space. */ if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_MEMDIE))) - return -ENOMEM; + return i ? i : -ENOMEM; if (write) foll_flags |= FOLL_WRITE; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are get_user_pages-fix-possible-page-leak-on-oom.patch introduce-pf_kthread-flag.patch kill-pf_borrowed_mm-in-favour-of-pf_kthread.patch coredump-zap_threads-must-skip-kernel-threads.patch posix-timers-timer_delete-remove-the-bogus-it_process-=-null-check.patch posix-timers-release_posix_timer-kill-the-bogus-put_task_struct-it_process.patch signals-collect_signal-remove-the-unneeded-sigismember-check.patch signals-collect_signal-simplify-the-still_pending-logic.patch signals-change-collect_signal-to-return-void.patch __exit_signal-dont-take-rcu-lock.patch signals-dequeue_signal-dont-check-signal_group_exit-when-setting-signal_stop_dequeued.patch signals-do_signal_stop-kill-the-signal_unkillable-check.patch coredump-zap_threads-comments-use-while_each_thread.patch include-asm-ptraceh-userspace-headers-cleanup.patch distinct-tgid-tid-i-o-statistics.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