On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > move_vma() sets *locked even if move_page_tables() or ->mremap() > fails, change sys_mremap() to check "ret & ~PAGE_MASK". > > I think we should simply remove the VM_LOCKED code in move_vma(), > that is why this patch doesn't change move_vma(). But this needs > more cleanups. > > Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> > --- > mm/mremap.c | 4 +++- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c > index a6306bc..492721c 100644 > --- a/mm/mremap.c > +++ b/mm/mremap.c > @@ -574,8 +574,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(mremap, unsigned long, addr, unsigned > long, old_len, > ret = move_vma(vma, addr, old_len, new_len, new_addr, &locked); > } > out: > - if (ret & ~PAGE_MASK) > + if (ret & ~PAGE_MASK) { > vm_unacct_memory(charged); > + locked = 0; > + } > up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); > if (locked && new_len > old_len) > mm_populate(new_addr + old_len, new_len - old_len);
Perhaps I'm looking at the wrong tree (next-20150630), but why does setting locked to 0 here matter if it's unreferenced? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

