On 2013/5/10 14:08, Jianguo Wu wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> I rebase "[PATCH] hugetlbfs: fix mmap failure in unaligned size request" on 3.4,
> could you please apply to 3.4-stable.
>
Then you should also backport this commit to 3.4:
091d0d55b286c9340201b4ed4470be87fc568228
("shm: fix null pointer deref when userspace specifies invalid hugepage size")
> Chagelog:
> - remove hstate_sizelog(), as 3.4 only support default hugepagesize for
> MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB.
>
>
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit af73e4d9506d3b797509f3c030e7dcd554f7d9c4 upstream.
>
> The current kernel returns -EINVAL unless a given mmap length is
> "almost" hugepage aligned. This is because in sys_mmap_pgoff() the
> given length is passed to vm_mmap_pgoff() as it is without being aligned
> with hugepage boundary.
>
> This is a regression introduced in commit 40716e29243d ("hugetlbfs: fix
> alignment of huge page requests"), where alignment code is pushed into
> hugetlb_file_setup() and the variable len in caller side is not changed.
>
> To fix this, this patch partially reverts that commit, and adds
> alignment code in caller side. And it also introduces hstate_sizelog()
> in order to get proper hstate to specified hugepage size.
>
> Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56881
>
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