On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:29:18AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
>
> ------------------
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> My "slices" address space management code that was added in 2.6.22
> implementation of get_unmapped_area() doesn't properly check that the
> size is a multiple of the requested page size. This allows userland to
> create VMAs that aren't a multiple of the huge page size with hugetlbfs
> (since hugetlbfs entirely relies on get_unmapped_area() to do that
> checking) which leads to a kernel BUG() when such areas are torn down.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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