vmscan: limit VM_EXEC protection to file pages
authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:49:53 +0000 (16:49 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:39:27 +0000 (07:39 -0700)
It is possible to have !Anon but SwapBacked pages, and some apps could
create huge number of such pages with MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS.  These
pages go into the ANON lru list, and hence shall not be protected: we only
care mapped executable files.  Failing to do so may trigger OOM.

Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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