Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:28:46 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/fork.c: VM accounting bugfix (2.6.11-rc3-bk5) |
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* Hugh Dickins (hugh@veritas.com) wrote: > dup_mmap's charge starts out at 0 and gets added to each time around > the loop through vmas; if security_vm_enough_memory fails at any point > in that loop, we need to vm_unacct_memory the charge already accumulated.
If that's the requirement, then it's broken as is, because there is nothing accumulating. len is re-determined each pass, and charge is reset each pass. But I think that it's ok, as we only care about the last pass. If dup_mmap() fails part way through, the cleanup path should call unaccount for the (potentially) accounted by not fully setup vma then call exit_mmap() and clear all the vmas that got accounted for already. Either way, Mark's patch is not needed, and I don't think anything needs patching in this area. Hugh, do you agree?
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