1. 18 Jul, 2017 38 commits
  2. 02 Jul, 2017 2 commits
    • Ben Hutchings's avatar
      Linux 3.2.90 · 9b733a81
      Ben Hutchings authored
      9b733a81
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      mm: fix find_vma_prev · 0e49b7dd
      Mikulas Patocka authored
      commit 83cd904d upstream.
      
      Commit 6bd4837d ("mm: simplify find_vma_prev()") broke memory
      management on PA-RISC.
      
      After application of the patch, programs that allocate big arrays on the
      stack crash with segfault, for example, this will crash if compiled
      without optimization:
      
        int main()
        {
      	char array[200000];
      	array[199999] = 0;
      	return 0;
        }
      
      The reason is that PA-RISC has up-growing stack and the stack is usually
      the last memory area.  In the above example, a page fault happens above
      the stack.
      
      Previously, if we passed too high address to find_vma_prev, it returned
      NULL and stored the last VMA in *pprev.  After "simplify find_vma_prev"
      change, it stores NULL in *pprev.  Consequently, the stack area is not
      found and it is not expanded, as it used to be before the change.
      
      This patch restores the old behavior and makes it return the last VMA in
      *pprev if the requested address is higher than address of any other VMA.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
      0e49b7dd