Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:41:06 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list |
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:47:13 +0000 (GMT) Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> > 1) start --> end straddles sparc64 address space hole > > That's an interesting remark. I hadn't noticed the signed long type. > I believe the vma gathering in free_pgtables will have no problem with > that, but what about the old code? What happens if an app does a huge > munmap straddling the address space hole? Or is all the user address > space below the hole?
It will BUG(), crap. :( Good catch, I'll fix this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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