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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 06:53:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-08-22 19:52:44 +0200 |
| commit | a670468f5e0b5fad4db6e4d195f15915dc2a35c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 57540edd0f9f24335154139c17695a13b594fe58 /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | mm/mempool.c: add missing parameter description (diff) | |
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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 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 5ee74c113381..8c760effa42e 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -310,8 +310,9 @@ static struct kmem_cache *mm_cachep; struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm) { - struct vm_area_struct *vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + struct vm_area_struct *vma; + vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); if (vma) vma_init(vma, mm); return vma; |