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SubjectRe: mremap() bug IMHO not in 2.2
On Jan-05 2004, Mon, 16:08 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> The only page that should matter is likely the one at 0xC0000000, where
> there can be extra complications from the fact that we use 4MB pages for
> the kernel, so when fork/exit tries to walk the page table, it would get
> bogus results.
>
> Still, I'd expect that to lead to a triple fault (and thus a reboot)
> rather than any elevation of privileges..

Hmmm... so what about non-x86?

> Interesting, in any case. Good catch from whoever found it.

Impressive, yes.

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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