-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

malicious 32bit app can have an elf section at 0xffffe000.  During
exec of this app, we will have a memory leak as insert_vm_struct() is
not checking for return value in syscall32_setup_pages() and thus not
freeing the vma allocated for the vsyscall page.

Check the return value and free the vma incase of failure.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.12.3.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.c    2005-07-28 
11:17:01.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.12.3/arch/x86_64/ia32/syscall32.c 2005-07-28 11:17:11.000000000 
-0700
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
        int npages = (VSYSCALL32_END - VSYSCALL32_BASE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
        struct vm_area_struct *vma;
        struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+       int ret;
 
        vma = kmem_cache_alloc(vm_area_cachep, SLAB_KERNEL);
        if (!vma)
@@ -78,7 +79,11 @@
        vma->vm_mm = mm;
 
        down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
-       insert_vm_struct(mm, vma);
+       if ((ret = insert_vm_struct(mm, vma))) {
+               up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
+               kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+               return ret;
+       }
        mm->total_vm += npages;
        up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
        return 0;
-
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