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<title>linux-toradex.git/mm/mmap.c, branch v2.6.33.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check.</title>
<updated>2011-03-21T19:44:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tavis Ormandy</name>
<email>taviso@cmpxchg8b.com</email>
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<published>2010-12-09T14:29:42+00:00</published>
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commit 462e635e5b73ba9a4c03913b77138cd57ce4b050 upstream.

The install_special_mapping routine (used, for example, to setup the
vdso) skips the security check before insert_vm_struct, allowing a local
attacker to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction by limiting
the available pages for special mappings.

bprm_mm_init() also skips the check, and although I don't think this can
be used to bypass any restrictions, I don't see any reason not to have
the security check.

  $ uname -m
  x86_64
  $ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
  65536
  $ cat install_special_mapping.s
  section .bss
      resb BSS_SIZE
  section .text
      global _start
      _start:
          mov     eax, __NR_pause
          int     0x80
  $ nasm -D__NR_pause=29 -DBSS_SIZE=0xfffed000 -f elf -o install_special_mapping.o install_special_mapping.s
  $ ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext=0x10000 -Tbss=0x11000 -o install_special_mapping install_special_mapping.o
  $ ./install_special_mapping &amp;
  [1] 14303
  $ cat /proc/14303/maps
  0000f000-00010000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]
  00010000-00011000 r-xp 00001000 00:19 2453665                            /home/taviso/install_special_mapping
  00011000-ffffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [stack]

It's worth noting that Red Hat are shipping with mmap_min_addr set to
4096.

Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robert Swiecki &lt;swiecki@google.com&gt;
[ Changed to not drop the error code - akpm ]
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 462e635e5b73ba9a4c03913b77138cd57ce4b050 upstream.

The install_special_mapping routine (used, for example, to setup the
vdso) skips the security check before insert_vm_struct, allowing a local
attacker to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction by limiting
the available pages for special mappings.

bprm_mm_init() also skips the check, and although I don't think this can
be used to bypass any restrictions, I don't see any reason not to have
the security check.

  $ uname -m
  x86_64
  $ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
  65536
  $ cat install_special_mapping.s
  section .bss
      resb BSS_SIZE
  section .text
      global _start
      _start:
          mov     eax, __NR_pause
          int     0x80
  $ nasm -D__NR_pause=29 -DBSS_SIZE=0xfffed000 -f elf -o install_special_mapping.o install_special_mapping.s
  $ ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext=0x10000 -Tbss=0x11000 -o install_special_mapping install_special_mapping.o
  $ ./install_special_mapping &amp;
  [1] 14303
  $ cat /proc/14303/maps
  0000f000-00010000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]
  00010000-00011000 r-xp 00001000 00:19 2453665                            /home/taviso/install_special_mapping
  00011000-ffffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [stack]

It's worth noting that Red Hat are shipping with mmap_min_addr set to
4096.

Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy &lt;taviso@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robert Swiecki &lt;swiecki@google.com&gt;
[ Changed to not drop the error code - akpm ]
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>mm: move sys_mmap_pgoff from util.c</title>
<updated>2009-12-30T20:23:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-30T20:17:34+00:00</published>
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Move sys_mmap_pgoff() from mm/util.c to mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c,
where we'd expect to find such code: especially now that it contains
the MAP_HUGETLB handling.  Revert mm/util.c to how it was in 2.6.32.

This patch just ignores MAP_HUGETLB in the nommu case, as in 2.6.32,
whereas 2.6.33-rc2 reported -ENOSYS.  Perhaps validate_mmap_request()
should reject it with -EINVAL?  Add that later if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Move sys_mmap_pgoff() from mm/util.c to mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c,
where we'd expect to find such code: especially now that it contains
the MAP_HUGETLB handling.  Revert mm/util.c to how it was in 2.6.32.

This patch just ignores MAP_HUGETLB in the nommu case, as in 2.6.32,
whereas 2.6.33-rc2 reported -ENOSYS.  Perhaps validate_mmap_request()
should reject it with -EINVAL?  Add that later if necessary.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: uncached vma support with writenotify</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T16:53:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Magnus Damm</name>
<email>damm@opensource.se</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T01:59:49+00:00</published>
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Modify the generic mmap() code to keep the cache attribute in
vma-&gt;vm_page_prot regardless if writenotify is enabled or not.  Without
this patch the cache configuration selected by f_op-&gt;mmap() is overwritten
if writenotify is enabled, making it impossible to keep the vma uncached.

Needed by drivers such as drivers/video/sh_mobile_lcdcfb.c which uses
deferred io together with uncached memory.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm &lt;damm@opensource.se&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Jaya Kumar &lt;jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Modify the generic mmap() code to keep the cache attribute in
vma-&gt;vm_page_prot regardless if writenotify is enabled or not.  Without
this patch the cache configuration selected by f_op-&gt;mmap() is overwritten
if writenotify is enabled, making it impossible to keep the vma uncached.

Needed by drivers such as drivers/video/sh_mobile_lcdcfb.c which uses
deferred io together with uncached memory.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm &lt;damm@opensource.se&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Jaya Kumar &lt;jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mmap: don't return ENOMEM when mapcount is temporarily exceeded in munmap()</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T16:53:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T01:57:56+00:00</published>
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On ia64, the following test program exit abnormally, because glibc thread
library called abort().

 ========================================================
 (gdb) bt
 #0  0xa000000000010620 in __kernel_syscall_via_break ()
 #1  0x20000000003208e0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
 #2  0x2000000000324090 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
 #3  0x200000000027c3e0 in __deallocate_stack () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
 #4  0x200000000027f7c0 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
 #5  0x200000000047ef60 in __clone2 () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
 ========================================================

The fact is, glibc call munmap() when thread exitng time for freeing
stack, and it assume munlock() never fail.  However, munmap() often make
vma splitting and it with many mapcount make -ENOMEM.

Oh well, that's crazy, because stack unmapping never increase mapcount.
The maxcount exceeding is only temporary.  internal temporary exceeding
shouldn't make ENOMEM.

This patch does it.

 test_max_mapcount.c
 ==================================================================
  #include&lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include&lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include&lt;string.h&gt;
  #include&lt;pthread.h&gt;
  #include&lt;errno.h&gt;
  #include&lt;unistd.h&gt;

  #define THREAD_NUM 30000
  #define MAL_SIZE (8*1024*1024)

 void *wait_thread(void *args)
 {
 	void *addr;

 	addr = malloc(MAL_SIZE);
 	sleep(10);

 	return NULL;
 }

 void *wait_thread2(void *args)
 {
 	sleep(60);

 	return NULL;
 }

 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	int i;
 	pthread_t thread[THREAD_NUM], th;
 	int ret, count = 0;
 	pthread_attr_t attr;

 	ret = pthread_attr_init(&amp;attr);
 	if(ret) {
 		perror("pthread_attr_init");
 	}

 	ret = pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&amp;attr, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED);
 	if(ret) {
 		perror("pthread_attr_setdetachstate");
 	}

 	for (i = 0; i &lt; THREAD_NUM; i++) {
 		ret = pthread_create(&amp;th, &amp;attr, wait_thread, NULL);
 		if(ret) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "[%d] ", count);
 			perror("pthread_create");
 		} else {
 			printf("[%d] create OK.\n", count);
 		}
 		count++;

 		ret = pthread_create(&amp;thread[i], &amp;attr, wait_thread2, NULL);
 		if(ret) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "[%d] ", count);
 			perror("pthread_create");
 		} else {
 			printf("[%d] create OK.\n", count);
 		}
 		count++;
 	}

 	sleep(3600);
 	return 0;
 }
 ==================================================================

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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On ia64, the following test program exit abnormally, because glibc thread
library called abort().

 ========================================================
 (gdb) bt
 #0  0xa000000000010620 in __kernel_syscall_via_break ()
 #1  0x20000000003208e0 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
 #2  0x2000000000324090 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
 #3  0x200000000027c3e0 in __deallocate_stack () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
 #4  0x200000000027f7c0 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
 #5  0x200000000047ef60 in __clone2 () from /lib/libc.so.6.1
 ========================================================

The fact is, glibc call munmap() when thread exitng time for freeing
stack, and it assume munlock() never fail.  However, munmap() often make
vma splitting and it with many mapcount make -ENOMEM.

Oh well, that's crazy, because stack unmapping never increase mapcount.
The maxcount exceeding is only temporary.  internal temporary exceeding
shouldn't make ENOMEM.

This patch does it.

 test_max_mapcount.c
 ==================================================================
  #include&lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include&lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include&lt;string.h&gt;
  #include&lt;pthread.h&gt;
  #include&lt;errno.h&gt;
  #include&lt;unistd.h&gt;

  #define THREAD_NUM 30000
  #define MAL_SIZE (8*1024*1024)

 void *wait_thread(void *args)
 {
 	void *addr;

 	addr = malloc(MAL_SIZE);
 	sleep(10);

 	return NULL;
 }

 void *wait_thread2(void *args)
 {
 	sleep(60);

 	return NULL;
 }

 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	int i;
 	pthread_t thread[THREAD_NUM], th;
 	int ret, count = 0;
 	pthread_attr_t attr;

 	ret = pthread_attr_init(&amp;attr);
 	if(ret) {
 		perror("pthread_attr_init");
 	}

 	ret = pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&amp;attr, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED);
 	if(ret) {
 		perror("pthread_attr_setdetachstate");
 	}

 	for (i = 0; i &lt; THREAD_NUM; i++) {
 		ret = pthread_create(&amp;th, &amp;attr, wait_thread, NULL);
 		if(ret) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "[%d] ", count);
 			perror("pthread_create");
 		} else {
 			printf("[%d] create OK.\n", count);
 		}
 		count++;

 		ret = pthread_create(&amp;thread[i], &amp;attr, wait_thread2, NULL);
 		if(ret) {
 			fprintf(stderr, "[%d] ", count);
 			perror("pthread_create");
 		} else {
 			printf("[%d] create OK.\n", count);
 		}
 		count++;
 	}

 	sleep(3600);
 	return 0;
 }
 ==================================================================

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>switch do_brk() to get_unmapped_area()</title>
<updated>2009-12-11T11:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-04T00:40:46+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Take arch_mmap_check() into get_unmapped_area()</title>
<updated>2009-12-11T11:44:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-03T20:23:11+00:00</published>
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Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix a struct file leak in do_mmap_pgoff()</title>
<updated>2009-12-11T11:44:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-01T01:12:03+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>LSM: imbed ima calls in the security hooks</title>
<updated>2009-10-25T04:22:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mimi Zohar</name>
<email>zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-22T21:30:13+00:00</published>
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Based on discussions on LKML and LSM, where there are consecutive
security_ and ima_ calls in the vfs layer, move the ima_ calls to
the existing security_ hooks.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Based on discussions on LKML and LSM, where there are consecutive
security_ and ima_ calls in the vfs layer, move the ima_ calls to
the existing security_ hooks.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>const: mark struct vm_struct_operations</title>
<updated>2009-09-27T18:39:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-27T18:29:37+00:00</published>
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* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const
* mark vm_ops in AGP code

But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops
being used.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const
* mark vm_ops in AGP code

But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops
being used.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlb: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions</title>
<updated>2009-09-22T14:17:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric B Munson</name>
<email>ebmunson@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T00:03:47+00:00</published>
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Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
will look like anonymous memory to userspace.  This is accomplished by
using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch definitions of MAP_HUGETLB]
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson &lt;ebmunson@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Adam Litke &lt;agl@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
will look like anonymous memory to userspace.  This is accomplished by
using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch definitions of MAP_HUGETLB]
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson &lt;ebmunson@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Adam Litke &lt;agl@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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