From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Chapman Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:08:10 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] mremap and "negative" addresses Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org mremap, like mmap, can return addresses in region 4 which are "negative" (when interpreted as signed values) and thus interpreted as syscall failure. The following patch implements the same workaround as for mmap and other such syscalls. (It looks like 2.5 also has the same issue, if this seems sensible I can produce a patch for that as well.) Matt diff -ru linux-2.4.19-020821.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S linux-2.4.19-020821/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S --- linux-2.4.19-020821.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S 2002-09-17 16:18:06.000000000 +1000 +++ linux-2.4.19-020821/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S 2002-11-01 15:11:50.000000000 +1100 @@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ data8 sys_mlock data8 sys_mlockall data8 sys_mprotect // 1155 - data8 sys_mremap + data8 ia64_mremap data8 sys_msync data8 sys_munlock data8 sys_munlockall diff -ru linux-2.4.19-020821.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c linux-2.4.19-020821/arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c --- linux-2.4.19-020821.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c 2002-09-17 16:18:06.000000000 +1000 +++ linux-2.4.19-020821/arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c 2002-11-01 18:36:10.000000000 +1100 @@ -253,6 +253,21 @@ return addr; } +asmlinkage unsigned long +ia64_mremap (unsigned long addr, unsigned long old_len, unsigned long new_len, unsigned long flags, + unsigned long new_addr, long arg5, long arg6, long arg7, long stack) +{ + struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *) &stack; + + down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); + addr = do_mremap(addr, old_len, new_len, flags, new_addr); + up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); + + if (!IS_ERR((void *) addr)) + regs->r8 = 0; /* ensure large addresses are not mistaken as failures... */ + return addr; +} + asmlinkage long sys_vm86 (long arg0, long arg1, long arg2, long arg3) { diff -ru linux-2.4.19-020821.orig/include/linux/mm.h linux-2.4.19-020821/include/linux/mm.h --- linux-2.4.19-020821.orig/include/linux/mm.h 2002-09-17 16:18:07.000000000 +1000 +++ linux-2.4.19-020821/include/linux/mm.h 2002-11-01 18:34:15.000000000 +1100 @@ -559,8 +559,10 @@ } extern int do_munmap(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long, size_t); - extern unsigned long do_brk(unsigned long, unsigned long); +extern unsigned long do_mremap(unsigned long addr, + unsigned long old_len, unsigned long new_len, + unsigned long flags, unsigned long new_addr); static inline void __vma_unlink(struct mm_struct * mm, struct vm_area_struct * vma, struct vm_area_struct * prev) {