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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:05:15 -0500
From: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com>
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Can someone enlighten me as to what it really means when  a user land
shmat call, in which the virtual address is provided, fails in the
kernel find_vma_intersection function because

  end_addr(of my SHM) is <= vma->vm_start?

static inline struct vm_area_struct * find_vma_intersection(struct
mm_struct * mm, unsigned long start_addr, unsigned long end_addr)
{
        struct vm_area_struct * vma = find_vma(mm,start_addr);

        if (vma && end_addr <= vma->vm_start)
                vma = NULL;
        return vma;
}

Thanks in advance
Mark