mm: zero out the vma in vma_init()
Rather than in vm_area_alloc(). To ensure that the various oddball
stack-based vmas are in a good state. Some of the callers were zeroing
them out, others were not.
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 5ee74c1..8c760ef 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -310,8 +310,9 @@ static struct kmem_cache *mm_cachep;
struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
- struct vm_area_struct *vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+ vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (vma)
vma_init(vma, mm);
return vma;