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From: Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.1-rc1 affected?
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:44:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FFAADB9.6030801@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1aG5G-3mf-21@gated-at.bofh.it>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'd actually personally prefer a stronger test than the one in 2.4.24, and 
> my personal preference would be for just disallowing the degenerate cases
> entirely.  I don't see a "mremap away" as being a valid thing to do, since 
> if that is what you want, why not just do a "munmap()"?
> 

I belive your fix isn't correct.
Should that test be:
   if(!old_len || !new_len)
        goto out;
?

The difference is when old_len!=0 and new_len==0:
With the fix that Marcelo merged, mremap does nothing and returns -1.
With your fix, mremap does do_munmap and then returns -1.

Michal Schmidt

       reply	other threads:[~2004-01-06 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1aFW7-39l-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1aG5G-3mf-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-01-06 12:44   ` Michal Schmidt [this message]
2004-01-05 16:31 2.6.1-rc1 affected? Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-05 16:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 18:14   ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-05 18:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-05 19:04       ` Markus Hästbacka
2004-01-05 19:38       ` GCS
2004-01-05 22:48         ` Tomas Szepe
2004-01-06  0:23           ` Bastiaan Spandaw
2004-01-06  1:09             ` Max Valdez
2004-01-06  1:25               ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-06  1:31                 ` Hugang
2004-01-06  1:43                   ` Hugang
2004-01-06  2:47                 ` szonyi calin
2004-01-06  3:24                   ` Jonathan Higdon
2004-01-06  3:51                     ` szonyi calin
2004-01-06  6:39             ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-01-06  9:26               ` Giuliani Ivan

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