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syzbot has noticed that a specially crafted library can easily hit
VM_BUG_ON in __mm_populate

  kernel BUG at mm/gup.c:1242!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 2 PID: 9667 Comm: a.out Not tainted 4.18.0-rc3 #644
  Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 05/19/2017
  RIP: 0010:__mm_populate+0x1e2/0x1f0
  Code: 55 d0 65 48 33 14 25 28 00 00 00 89 d8 75 21 48 83 c4 20 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 e8 75 18 f1 ff 0f 0b e8 6e 18 f1 ff <0f> 0b 31 db eb c9 e8 93 06 e0 ff 0f 1f 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 89 fb
  Call Trace:
     vm_brk_flags+0xc3/0x100
     vm_brk+0x1f/0x30
     load_elf_library+0x281/0x2e0
     __ia32_sys_uselib+0x170/0x1e0
     do_fast_syscall_32+0xca/0x420
     entry_SYSENTER_compat+0x70/0x7f

The reason is that the length of the new brk is not page aligned when we
try to populate the it.  There is no reason to bug on that though.
do_brk_flags already aligns the length properly so...