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]>
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