diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 0e1c950..0b515ac 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -885,6 +885,12 @@
 	current->flags &= ~PF_RANDOMIZE;
 	flush_thread();
 
+	/* Set the new mm task size. We have to do that late because it may
+	 * depend on TIF_32BIT which is only updated in flush_thread() on
+	 * some architectures like powerpc
+	 */
+	current->mm->task_size = TASK_SIZE;
+
 	if (bprm->e_uid != current->euid || bprm->e_gid != current->egid || 
 	    file_permission(bprm->file, MAY_READ) ||
 	    (bprm->interp_flags & BINPRM_FLAGS_ENFORCE_NONDUMP)) {