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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-03-24 03:18:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-24 07:33:26 -0800
commit676758bdb7bfca8413a85203921746f446e237be (patch)
tree23c731f429652e16f2cdba98cd503eaa059f929b /mm/msync.c
parent707c21c848deeb0200ba3f07e4ba90e6dc419c2f (diff)
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[PATCH] msync: fix return value
msync() does a strange thing. Essentially: vma = find_vma(); for ( ; ; ) { if (!vma) return -ENOMEM; ... vma = vma->vm_next; } so an msync() request which starts within or before a valid VMA and which ends within or beyond the final VMA will incorrectly return -ENOMEM. Fix. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/msync.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/msync.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c
index ee9bd6759833..d6a50f3f28b6 100644
--- a/mm/msync.c
+++ b/mm/msync.c
@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
{
unsigned long end;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
- int unmapped_error, error = -EINVAL;
+ int unmapped_error = 0;
+ int error = -EINVAL;
int done = 0;
if (flags & ~(MS_ASYNC | MS_INVALIDATE | MS_SYNC))
@@ -171,15 +172,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
if (flags & MS_SYNC)
current->flags |= PF_SYNCWRITE;
vma = find_vma(current->mm, start);
- unmapped_error = 0;
+ if (!vma) {
+ error = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
do {
unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied = 0;
struct file *file;
- /* Still start < end. */
- error = -ENOMEM;
- if (!vma)
- goto out_unlock;
/* Here start < vma->vm_end. */
if (start < vma->vm_start) {
unmapped_error = -ENOMEM;
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
} else {
vma = vma->vm_next;
}
- } while (!done);
+ } while (vma && !done);
out_unlock:
current->flags &= ~PF_SYNCWRITE;
up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);