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DateFri, 12 Jan 2007 09:43:10 +0200
From"Pekka Enberg" <>
SubjectRe: mprotect abuse in slim
On 1/11/07, Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Right, but is returning -EINVAL to userspace on munmap a problem?

Yes, because an application has no way of reusing the revoked mapping
range. The current patch should get this right, though.

On 1/11/07, Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the tw other patches - I'll give them a shot and check
> out current munmap behavior just as soon as I get a chance.

I hacked the remaining open issues yesterday so please use this instead:

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/penberg/linux/revoke/revoke-2.6.20-rc4

The one at kernel.org will be updated as well when mirroring catches up.
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