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Message-ID: <20151123081946.GA21050@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:19:47 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To: Piotr Kwapulinski <kwapulinski.piotr@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/mmap.c: remove incorrect MAP_FIXED flag
comparison from mmap_region
On Fri 20-11-15 17:42:14, Piotr Kwapulinski wrote:
> The following flag comparison in mmap_region makes no sense:
>
> if (!(vm_flags & MAP_FIXED))
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> The condition is always false and thus the above "return -ENOMEM" is never
> executed. The vm_flags must not be compared with MAP_FIXED flag.
> The vm_flags may only be compared with VM_* flags.
> MAP_FIXED has the same value as VM_MAYREAD.
> It has no user visible effect.
>
> Remove the code that makes no sense.
>
> Signed-off-by: Piotr Kwapulinski <kwapulinski.piotr@...il.com>
I think this is preferable. Hitting the rlimit is a slow path and
find_vma_intersection should realize that there is no overlapping
VMA for !MAP_FIXED case pretty quickly.
I would prefer this to be in the changelog rather than/in addition to
"It has no user visible effect" which is really vague.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> ---
> I made a mistake in a changelog in a previous version of this patch.
> I'm Sorry for the confusion.
> This patch may be considered to be applied only in case the patch
> "[PATCH v2 1/2] mm: fix incorrect behavior when process virtual
> address space limit is exceeded"
> is not going to be accepted.
>
> mm/mmap.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index 2ce04a6..42a8259 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -1551,9 +1551,6 @@ unsigned long mmap_region(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
> * MAP_FIXED may remove pages of mappings that intersects with
> * requested mapping. Account for the pages it would unmap.
> */
> - if (!(vm_flags & MAP_FIXED))
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> nr_pages = count_vma_pages_range(mm, addr, addr + len);
>
> if (!may_expand_vm(mm, (len >> PAGE_SHIFT) - nr_pages))
> --
> 2.6.2
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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