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Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:33:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
cc:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sami Farin <safari-kernel@...ari.iki.fi>,
	Linux kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] brk randomization: compute RLIMIT_DATA properly
 (was Re: x86: randomize brk() and RLIMIT_DATA)


On Oct 26 2007 13:30, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>> @@ -251,7 +251,8 @@ asmlinkage unsigned long sys_brk(unsigned long brk)
>>  	 * not page aligned -Ram Gupta
>>  	 */
>>  	rlim = current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_DATA].rlim_cur;
>> -	if (rlim < RLIM_INFINITY && brk - mm->start_data > rlim)
>> +	if (rlim < RLIM_INFINITY && (brk - mm->start_brk) +
>> +			(mm->end_data - mm->start_data) > rlim)
>>  		goto out;
>>  
>>  	newbrk = PAGE_ALIGN(brk);

Parentheses around (brk - mm->start_brk) + (mm->end_data - mm->start_data)
not strictly necessary.
-
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