The patch titled
mm: vmalloc allocator off by one
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-vmalloc-allocator-off-by-one.patch
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Subject: mm: vmalloc allocator off by one
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Fix off by one bug in the KVA allocator that can leave gaps in the address
space.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-allocator-off-by-one mm/vmalloc.c
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-allocator-off-by-one
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ retry:
goto found;
}
- while (addr + size >= first->va_start && addr + size <= vend) {
+ while (addr + size > first->va_start && addr + size <= vend) {
addr = ALIGN(first->va_end + PAGE_SIZE, align);
n = rb_next(&first->rb_node);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
mm-vmalloc-allocator-off-by-one.patch
mm-vmalloc-failure-flush-fix.patch
mm-vmalloc-search-restart-fix.patch
mm-dont-mark_page_accessed-in-fault-path.patch
mm-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault.patch
mm-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault-fix.patch
mm-invoke-oom-killer-from-page-fault-fix-fix-2.patch
mm-write_cache_pages-cyclic-fix.patch
mm-write_cache_pages-cyclic-fix-fix.patch
mm-write_cache_pages-early-loop-termination.patch
mm-write_cache_pages-writepage-error-fix.patch
mm-write_cache_pages-integrity-fix.patch
mm-write_cache_pages-cleanups.patch
mm-write_cache_pages-optimise-page-cleaning.patch
mm-write_cache_pages-terminate-quickly.patch
mm-write_cache_pages-more-terminate-quickly.patch
mm-do_sync_mapping_range-integrity-fix.patch
mm-get-rid-of-pagevec_release_nonlru.patch
mm-more-likely-reclaim-madv_sequential-mappings.patch
mm-vmalloc-tweak-failure-printk.patch
mm-vmalloc-improve-vmallocinfo.patch
mm-vmalloc-use-mutex-for-purge.patch
mm-vmalloc-make-lazy-unmapping-configurable.patch
reiser4.patch
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