minor patch for 2.1.102 fs/exec.c

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Thu, 21 May 1998 14:59:41 -0400

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Hi Linus,

The attached small patch fixes a problem spotted by DaveM, in that the
mm->pgd field wasn't being cleared following a failure of
new_page_tables().

Regards,
Bill
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--- linux-2.1.102/fs/exec.c.old Sun May 17 12:19:36 1998
+++ linux-2.1.102/fs/exec.c Wed May 20 10:06:24 1998
@@ -428,6 +428,8 @@
* Failure ... restore the prior mm_struct.
*/
fail_restore:
+ /* The pgd belongs to the parent ... don't free it! */
+ mm->pgd = NULL;
current->mm = old_mm;
mmput(mm);

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