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Commit 00e9fa2d authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] mm: fix madvise infinine loop



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: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0465fc0a
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