Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:08:24 -0700 | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix memory leak of init_vdso_vars() |
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:33:14AM -0400, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > From: Zhitong Wang <wzt.wzt@gmail.com> > > If init_vdso_vars ran out of memory (not very likely), then it would > leak a few pages as well. > > Also rename init_vdso_vars to just init_vdso, since initializing > vvars is just about the only thing this function doesn't do.
Just add a GFP_PANIC, there's no way to recover from this. Your system will not work without a vdso.
-Andi
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