Re: [PATCH] MIPS: kernel: Fix reservation for VDSO area

From: Huacai Chen

Date: Mon Nov 17 2025 - 20:17:34 EST


Hi, Thomas,

I think 69896119dc9d ("MIPS: vdso: Switch to generic storage
implementation") changes the size of VDSO data from one page to
VDSO_NR_PAGES pages, so here we need to remove "top -= PAGE_SIZE".

Huacai

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM Thomas Bogendoerfer
<tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit 69896119dc9d ("MIPS: vdso: Switch to generic storage
> implementation") switches to a generic vdso storage, but missed to adapt
> the max stack top by the number of generic VDSO pages.
>
> Fixes: 69896119dc9d ("MIPS: vdso: Switch to generic storage implementation")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/kernel/process.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
> index 29191fa1801e..9eb5b26d4b5f 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/process.c
> @@ -693,6 +693,7 @@ unsigned long mips_stack_top(void)
> if (current->thread.abi) {
> top -= PAGE_ALIGN(current->thread.abi->vdso->size);
> top -= PAGE_SIZE;
> + top -= VDSO_NR_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE;
> top -= mips_gic_present() ? PAGE_SIZE : 0;
>
> /* Space to randomize the VDSO base */
> --
> 2.43.0
>
>