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mremap: simplify the "overlap" check in mremap_to()
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Minor, but this check is overcomplicated.  Two half-intervals do NOT
overlap if END1 <= START2 || END2 <= START1, mremap_to() just needs to
negate this check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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oleg-nesterov authored and torvalds committed Sep 4, 2015
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9 changes: 2 additions & 7 deletions mm/mremap.c
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Expand Up @@ -407,13 +407,8 @@ static unsigned long mremap_to(unsigned long addr, unsigned long old_len,
if (new_len > TASK_SIZE || new_addr > TASK_SIZE - new_len)
goto out;

/* Check if the location we're moving into overlaps the
* old location at all, and fail if it does.
*/
if ((new_addr <= addr) && (new_addr+new_len) > addr)
goto out;

if ((addr <= new_addr) && (addr+old_len) > new_addr)
/* Ensure the old/new locations do not overlap */
if (addr + old_len > new_addr && new_addr + new_len > addr)
goto out;

ret = do_munmap(mm, new_addr, new_len);
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