Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:34:42 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] get_unmapped_area() change -> non booting machine |
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:17:02 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > It's not bash, it's ld.so... Note that Andi's patch also fix a potential > similar issue with the free_area_cache, if somebody does a MAP_FIXED to > low addresses, then a un-hinted mmap, then that mmap will have chances > to be put straight after brk, causing the same kind of interesting issues.
Actually, MAP_FIXED is already handled in the caller. It can only happen for hints without MAP_FIXED.
> So if you don't take Andi's latest patch, maybe you should still take > the part that avoid playing with free_area_cache on MAP_FIXED mappings ?
Reverting everything should have the same effect (it was really a bug I added) Doing that would be fine for me, that change was not critical, just nice to have.
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