1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 89d788ca7829..5cb53f0232b1 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -167,7 +167,12 @@ out:
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-
+/*
+ * The nascent bprm->mm is not visible until exec_mmap() but it can
+ * use a lot of memory, account these pages in current->mm temporary
+ * for oom_badness()->get_mm_rss(). Once exec succeeds or fails, we
+ * change the counter back via acct_arg_size(0).
+ */
 static void acct_arg_size(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pages)
 {
         struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;