-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Nick Piggin madvise(MADV_REMOVE) can go into an infinite loop or cause an oops if the call covers a region from the start of a vma, and extending past that vma. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Badari Pulavarty Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/madvise.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -155,11 +155,14 @@ static long madvise_dontneed(struct vm_a * Other filesystems return -ENOSYS. */ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + struct vm_area_struct **prev, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { struct address_space *mapping; loff_t offset, endoff; + *prev = vma; + if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED|VM_NONLINEAR|VM_HUGETLB)) return -EINVAL; @@ -199,7 +202,7 @@ madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, error = madvise_behavior(vma, prev, start, end, behavior); break; case MADV_REMOVE: - error = madvise_remove(vma, start, end); + error = madvise_remove(vma, prev, start, end); break; case MADV_WILLNEED: -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/