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[PATCH] msync: fix return value
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msync() does a strange thing.  Essentially:

	vma = find_vma();
	for ( ; ; ) {
		if (!vma)
			return -ENOMEM;
		...
		vma = vma->vm_next;
	}

so an msync() request which starts within or before a valid VMA and which ends
within or beyond the final VMA will incorrectly return -ENOMEM.

Fix.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Andrew Morton authored and Linus Torvalds committed Mar 24, 2006
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14 changes: 7 additions & 7 deletions mm/msync.c
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Expand Up @@ -146,7 +146,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
{
unsigned long end;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
int unmapped_error, error = -EINVAL;
int unmapped_error = 0;
int error = -EINVAL;
int done = 0;

if (flags & ~(MS_ASYNC | MS_INVALIDATE | MS_SYNC))
Expand All @@ -171,15 +172,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
if (flags & MS_SYNC)
current->flags |= PF_SYNCWRITE;
vma = find_vma(current->mm, start);
unmapped_error = 0;
if (!vma) {
error = -ENOMEM;
goto out_unlock;
}
do {
unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied = 0;
struct file *file;

/* Still start < end. */
error = -ENOMEM;
if (!vma)
goto out_unlock;
/* Here start < vma->vm_end. */
if (start < vma->vm_start) {
unmapped_error = -ENOMEM;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
} else {
vma = vma->vm_next;
}
} while (!done);
} while (vma && !done);
out_unlock:
current->flags &= ~PF_SYNCWRITE;
up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
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