Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:15:25 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [87/99] vmscan: limit VM_EXEC protection to file pages |
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2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
commit 41e20983fe553b39bc2b00e07c7a379f0c86a4bc upstream.
It is possible to have !Anon but SwapBacked pages, and some apps could create huge number of such pages with MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS. These pages go into the ANON lru list, and hence shall not be protected: we only care mapped executable files. Failing to do so may trigger OOM.
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned * IO, plus JVM can create lots of anon VM_EXEC pages, * so we ignore them here. */ - if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) && !PageAnon(page)) { + if ((vm_flags & VM_EXEC) && page_is_file_cache(page)) { list_add(&page->lru, &l_active); continue; }
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