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authorRadu Caragea <[email protected]>2013-08-21 20:55:59 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2013-08-22 10:19:35 -0700
commit41aacc1eea645c99edbe8fbcf78a97dc9b862adc (patch)
tree2f1a4a363b738d374c58ca2a0d520f2b0981bf67
parent5ea80f76a56605a190a7ea16846c82aa63dbd0aa (diff)
x86 get_unmapped_area: Access mmap_legacy_base through mm_struct member
This is the updated version of df54d6fa5427 ("x86 get_unmapped_area(): use proper mmap base for bottom-up direction") that only randomizes the mmap base address once. Signed-off-by: Radu Caragea <[email protected]> Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Shorey <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Adrian Sendroiu <[email protected]> Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]> Cc: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/mmap.c6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm_types.h1
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c
index dbded5aedb81..30277e27431a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static void find_start_end(unsigned long flags, unsigned long *begin,
*begin = new_begin;
}
} else {
- *begin = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE;
+ *begin = current->mm->mmap_legacy_base;
*end = TASK_SIZE;
}
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
index 62c29a5bfe26..25e7e1372bb2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mmap.c
@@ -112,11 +112,13 @@ static unsigned long mmap_legacy_base(void)
*/
void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
+ mm->mmap_legacy_base = mmap_legacy_base();
+ mm->mmap_base = mmap_base();
+
if (mmap_is_legacy()) {
- mm->mmap_base = mmap_legacy_base();
+ mm->mmap_base = mm->mmap_legacy_base;
mm->get_unmapped_area = arch_get_unmapped_area;
} else {
- mm->mmap_base = mmap_base();
mm->get_unmapped_area = arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown;
}
}
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index fb425aa16c01..faf4b7c1ad12 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ struct mm_struct {
unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags);
#endif
unsigned long mmap_base; /* base of mmap area */
+ unsigned long mmap_legacy_base; /* base of mmap area in bottom-up allocations */
unsigned long task_size; /* size of task vm space */
unsigned long highest_vm_end; /* highest vma end address */
pgd_t * pgd;