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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2-mm2] core remove PageReserved
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:38:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <434BCE80.2060405@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434BCDF5.2080707@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Right. As a security issue it is nothing new, though probably it will
> be eaiser for big 64-bit systems to _unintentionally_ wrap the ZERO_PAGE
> refcount.
> 

Infinitely more probable in fact, considering it was impossible beforehand.

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-11 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-11  9:00 [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2-mm2] core remove PageReserved Nick Piggin
2005-10-11 13:04 ` Alan Cox
2005-10-11 13:39   ` Nick Piggin
2005-10-11 14:17     ` Hugh Dickins
2005-10-11 14:36       ` Nick Piggin
2005-10-11 14:38         ` Nick Piggin [this message]

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