Ack: Re: [PATCH 0/6] [maverick/omap4] Mlock and Yama fixes

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Thu Nov 24 14:42:16 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:07:20AM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> QA of the latest maverick/omap4 kernel unveiled some missing patches for
> mlock() and Yama.
> 
> All of the patches but the first one, are clean cherry picks from master. The
> first patch was a cherry pick, but needed some spacing/mangling to apply
> cleanly.
> 
> BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/893190
> 
> Kees Cook (2):
>   Yama: fix default relationship to check thread group
>   Yama: use thread group leader when creating match
> 
> Linus Torvalds (3):
>   mm: make the vma list be doubly linked
>   mm: make the mlock() stack guard page checks stricter
>   mm: make stack guard page logic use vm_prev pointer
> 
> Stefan Bader (1):
>   mm: Move vma_stack_continue into mm.h

Ack, seems the right set of patches verifying here also, and was
confirmed by Tobin's testing to fix the problems.

> 
>  fs/proc/task_mmu.c       |    3 ++-
>  include/linux/mm.h       |    6 ++++++
>  include/linux/mm_types.h |    2 +-
>  kernel/fork.c            |    7 +++++--
>  mm/memory.c              |   15 +++++++++++----
>  mm/mlock.c               |   15 ++++++++++-----
>  mm/mmap.c                |   22 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  mm/nommu.c               |    7 +++++--
>  security/yama/yama_lsm.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  9 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 

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Herton




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