From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751849AbcCKKfp (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2016 05:35:45 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36254 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751374AbcCKKfh (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Mar 2016 05:35:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/18] mm, elf: handle vm_brk error To: Michal Hocko , LKML References: <1456752417-9626-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> <1456752417-9626-6-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Alex Deucher , Alex Thorlton , Andrea Arcangeli , Andy Lutomirski , Benjamin LaHaise , =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_K=c3=b6nig?= , Daniel Vetter , Dave Hansen , David Airlie , Davidlohr Bueso , David Rientjes , "H . Peter Anvin" , Hugh Dickins , Ingo Molnar , Johannes Weiner , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Konstantin Khlebnikov , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , Oleg Nesterov , Peter Zijlstra , Petr Cermak , Thomas Gleixner , Michal Hocko , Alexander Viro From: Vlastimil Babka Message-ID: <56E29F75.4010004@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:35:33 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1456752417-9626-6-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/29/2016 02:26 PM, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko > > load_elf_library doesn't handle vm_brk failure although nothing really > indicates it cannot do that because the function is allowed to fail > due to vm_mmap failures already. This might be not a problem now > but later patch will make vm_brk killable (resp. mmap_sem for write > waiting will become killable) and so the failure will be more probable. > > Cc: Alexander Viro > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka