Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2004 03:14:21 +0100 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: mremap() bug IMHO not in 2.2 |
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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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