From: Anton Blanchard The 4 level pagetable code changed the exit_mmap code to rely on TASK_SIZE. On some architectures (eg ppc64 and ia64), this is a per task property and bad things can happen in certain circumstances when using it. It is possible for one task to end up "owning" an mm from another - we have seen this with the procfs code when process 1 accesses /proc/pid/cmdline of process 2 while it is exiting. Process 2 exits but does not tear its mm down. Later on process 1 finishes with the proc file and the mm gets torn down at this point. Now if process 1 was 32bit and process 2 was 64bit then we end up using a bad value for TASK_SIZE in exit_mmap. We only tear down part of the address space and leave half initialised pagetables and entries in the MMU etc. MM_VM_SIZE() was created for this purpose (and is used in the next line for tlb_finish_mmu), so use it. I moved the PGD round up of TASK_SIZE into the default MM_VM_SIZE. As an aside, all architectures except one define FIRST_USER_PGD_NR as 0: include/asm-arm26/pgtable.h:#define FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 1 It would be nice to get rid of one more magic constant and just clear from 0 ... MM_VM_SIZE(). That would make it consistent with the tlb_flush_mmu call below it too. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/include/linux/mm.h | 2 +- 25-akpm/mm/mmap.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/mm.h~use-mm_vm_size-in-exit_mmap include/linux/mm.h --- 25/include/linux/mm.h~use-mm_vm_size-in-exit_mmap 2005-01-25 21:41:44.365536624 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/include/linux/mm.h 2005-01-25 21:41:44.371535712 -0800 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ extern int sysctl_legacy_va_layout; #include #ifndef MM_VM_SIZE -#define MM_VM_SIZE(mm) TASK_SIZE +#define MM_VM_SIZE(mm) ((TASK_SIZE + PGDIR_SIZE - 1) & PGDIR_MASK) #endif #define nth_page(page,n) pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn((page)) + (n)) diff -puN mm/mmap.c~use-mm_vm_size-in-exit_mmap mm/mmap.c --- 25/mm/mmap.c~use-mm_vm_size-in-exit_mmap 2005-01-25 21:41:44.367536320 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/mm/mmap.c 2005-01-25 21:41:44.373535408 -0800 @@ -1980,8 +1980,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm) ~0UL, &nr_accounted, NULL); vm_unacct_memory(nr_accounted); BUG_ON(mm->map_count); /* This is just debugging */ - clear_page_range(tlb, FIRST_USER_PGD_NR * PGDIR_SIZE, - (TASK_SIZE + PGDIR_SIZE - 1) & PGDIR_MASK); + clear_page_range(tlb, FIRST_USER_PGD_NR * PGDIR_SIZE, MM_VM_SIZE(mm)); tlb_finish_mmu(tlb, 0, MM_VM_SIZE(mm)); _