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Commit 864778b1 authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, aout: handle vm_brk failures



vm_brk is allowed to fail but load_aout_binary simply ignores the error
and happily continues.  I haven't noticed any problem from that in real
life but later patches will make the failure more likely because vm_brk
will become killable (resp.  mmap_sem for write waiting will become
killable) so we should be more careful now.

The error handling should be quite straightforward because there are
calls to vm_mmap which check the error properly already.  The only
notable exception is set_brk which is called after beyond_if label.  But
nothing indicates that we cannot move it above set_binfmt as the two do
not depend on each other and fail before we do set_binfmt and alter
reference counting.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent ae798783
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