From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C563B6B005D for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:37:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A64B964.2080307@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:37:24 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] ksm: prevent mremap move poisoning References: <1247851850-4298-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1247851850-4298-2-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1247851850-4298-3-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1247851850-4298-4-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1247851850-4298-5-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1247851850-4298-6-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1247851850-4298-7-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1247851850-4298-8-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1247851850-4298-9-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1247851850-4298-9-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Izik Eidus Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, aarcange@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au List-ID: Izik Eidus wrote: > From: Hugh Dickins > > KSM's scan allows for user pages to be COWed or unmapped at any time, > without requiring any notification. But its stable tree does assume > that when it finds a KSM page where it placed a KSM page, then it is > the same KSM page that it placed there. Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org