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 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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: 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 -- 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