3.16.61-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> commit ecc2bc8ac03884266cf73f8a2a42b911465b2fbc upstream. load_elf_library doesn't handle vm_brk failure although nothing really indicates it cannot do that because the function is allowed to fail due to vm_mmap failures already. This might be not a problem now but later patch will make vm_brk killable (resp. mmap_sem for write waiting will become killable) and so the failure will be more probable. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -1084,8 +1084,11 @@ static int load_elf_library(struct file len = ELF_PAGESTART(eppnt->p_filesz + eppnt->p_vaddr + ELF_MIN_ALIGN - 1); bss = eppnt->p_memsz + eppnt->p_vaddr; - if (bss > len) - vm_brk(len, bss - len); + if (bss > len) { + error = vm_brk(len, bss - len); + if (BAD_ADDR(error)) + goto out_free_ph; + } error = 0; out_free_ph: