From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932106AbVJKOvL (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:51:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932107AbVJKOvK (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:51:10 -0400 Received: from smtp203.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.93]:28863 "HELO smtp203.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932106AbVJKOvJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:51:09 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ISSUjGh6MXcuQ7g39MBQGDRtEbrj6AQLyKhRFXUBZWfx65Nt6EHGWSi6KeA0PJxJmFxZJDG/Syq86BI0cQAY5FxuzkeYoxTIlujY36rtqI5AzBkNQUxu6sTrxjvFJXomZ4y8JRx3KUD/pC5r6kULifDahNw2axwMt+mDR9Oal6U= ; Message-ID: <434BCE80.2060405@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:38:56 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050914 Debian/1.7.11-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Hugh Dickins , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2-mm2] core remove PageReserved References: <434B7F19.5040808@yahoo.com.au> <1129035883.23677.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> <434BC095.4050305@yahoo.com.au> <434BCDF5.2080707@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <434BCDF5.2080707@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com