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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/msync.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c index 69c6d2029531..137d1c104f3e 100644 --- a/mm/msync.c +++ b/mm/msync.c @@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(msync, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags) goto out; /* * If the interval [start,end) covers some unmapped address ranges, - * just ignore them, but return -ENOMEM at the end. + * just ignore them, but return -ENOMEM at the end. Besides, if the + * flag is MS_ASYNC (w/o MS_INVALIDATE) the result would be -ENOMEM + * anyway and there is nothing left to do, so return immediately. */ mmap_read_lock(mm); vma = find_vma(mm, start); @@ -69,6 +71,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(msync, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags) goto out_unlock; /* Here start < vma->vm_end. */ if (start < vma->vm_start) { + if (flags == MS_ASYNC) + goto out_unlock; start = vma->vm_start; if (start >= end) goto out_unlock; |