From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261320AbVFELR7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jun 2005 07:17:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261330AbVFELR7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jun 2005 07:17:59 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:1755 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261320AbVFELR6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jun 2005 07:17:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:17:56 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: "Siddha, Suresh B" Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nanhai.zou@intel.com, rohit.seth@intel.com, rajesh.shah@intel.com Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [Patch] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes Message-ID: <20050605111755.GT23831@wotan.suse.de> References: <20050602133256.A14384@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20050602135013.4cba3ae2.akpm@osdl.org> <20050602151912.B14384@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20050602154823.15141bfc.akpm@osdl.org> <20050602160603.C14384@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20050603154839.GN23831@wotan.suse.de> <20050603120913.C29609@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050603120913.C29609@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:09:14PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > can happen in syscall32_setup_pages because of a malicious app and > another is the 32bit hugetlb application failure(which was also observed > by a customer recently). More details are in my changeset comments. Ok agreed the memory leak needs to be fixed somehow. The hugetlb thing should be caught by the compat mmap function. I will double check it. -andi