The patch titled
mmap: call unlink_anon_vmas() in __split_vma() in case of error
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
unlink_anon_vmas-in-__split_vma-in-case-of-error.patch
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Subject: mmap: call unlink_anon_vmas() in __split_vma() in case of error
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
If __split_vma fails because of an out of memory condition the
anon_vma_chain isn't teardown and freed potentially leading to rmap walks
accessing freed vma information plus there's a memleak.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mmap.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN mm/mmap.c~unlink_anon_vmas-in-__split_vma-in-case-of-error mm/mmap.c
--- a/mm/mmap.c~unlink_anon_vmas-in-__split_vma-in-case-of-error
+++ a/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2009,6 +2009,7 @@ static int __split_vma(struct mm_struct
removed_exe_file_vma(mm);
fput(new->vm_file);
}
+ unlink_anon_vmas(new);
out_free_mpol:
mpol_put(pol);
out_free_vma:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
rmap-fix-walk-during-fork.patch
unlink_anon_vmas-in-__split_vma-in-case-of-error.patch
define-madv_hugepage.patch
vmscan-do-not-writeback-filesystem-pages-in-direct-reclaim.patch
vmscan-kick-flusher-threads-to-clean-pages-when-reclaim-is-encountering-dirty-pages.patch
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