Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm/nommu.c: Fix improperly call of security API in mmap | | From | Eric Paris <> | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:58:52 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:50 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:32:02 -0500
> > security: do not check mmap_min_addr on nommu systems > > > > nommu systems can do anything with memory they please and so they already > > win. mmap_min_addr is the least of their worries. Currently the > > mmap_min_addr implementation is problamatic on such systems. This patch > > changes the addr_only argument to be a flags which can take the arguments > > for addr_only or not_addr. LSMs then need to properly implement these two > > flags. > > > > Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> > > Patch doesn't apply to current mainline for some reason. I fixed that > up and checked that the affected files compile OK on superh.
It was against my linux-next devel tree, probably something new in James' for-next tree. Are people hoping for this in stable or should we just queue for -next? This is a pretty old bug I guess people are just hitting for the first time...
> The patch adds trailing whitespace. If only we had a tool for that ;)
Fixed.
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