mm: Don't count the stack guard page towards RLIMIT_STACK
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:33:57 +0000 (11:33 -0800)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:49:36 +0000 (00:49 +0000)
commited19644d090c3e2162d5488594336ec43da23d38
treec7b8b99ef4d6624750d68acd1179acd5dee9c74c
parent27e5ab9cfb34a9491599c1cc7785755b2c5cb512
mm: Don't count the stack guard page towards RLIMIT_STACK

commit 690eac53daff34169a4d74fc7bfbd388c4896abb upstream.

Commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for
guard page") made sure that we return the error properly for stack
growth conditions.  It also theorized that counting the guard page
towards the stack limit might break something, but also said "Let's see
if anybody notices".

Somebody did notice.  Apparently android-x86 sets the stack limit very
close to the limit indeed, and including the guard page in the rlimit
check causes the android 'zygote' process problems.

So this adds the (fairly trivial) code to make the stack rlimit check be
against the actual real stack size, rather than the size of the vma that
includes the guard page.

Reported-and-tested-by: Chih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@android-x86.org>
Cc: Jay Foad <jay.foad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/mmap.c