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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-21 21:53:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-08-22 10:52:44 -0700
commita670468f5e0b5fad4db6e4d195f15915dc2a35c1 (patch)
tree57540edd0f9f24335154139c17695a13b594fe58 /arch
parenta3bf6ce366496016990d8578af74673ea04178ff (diff)
downloadlinux-a670468f5e0b5fad4db6e4d195f15915dc2a35c1.tar.bz2
mm: zero out the vma in vma_init()
Rather than in vm_area_alloc(). To ensure that the various oddball stack-based vmas are in a good state. Some of the callers were zeroing them out, others were not. Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/process.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index d9c299133111..82ab015bf42b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -330,16 +330,15 @@ unsigned long arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm)
* atomic helpers. Insert it into the gate_vma so that it is visible
* through ptrace and /proc/<pid>/mem.
*/
-static struct vm_area_struct gate_vma = {
- .vm_start = 0xffff0000,
- .vm_end = 0xffff0000 + PAGE_SIZE,
- .vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYEXEC,
-};
+static struct vm_area_struct gate_vma;
static int __init gate_vma_init(void)
{
vma_init(&gate_vma, NULL);
gate_vma.vm_page_prot = PAGE_READONLY_EXEC;
+ gate_vma.vm_start = 0xffff0000;
+ gate_vma.vm_end = 0xffff0000 + PAGE_SIZE;
+ gate_vma.vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYEXEC;
return 0;
}
arch_initcall(gate_vma_init);