Re: [BK-2.4] [PATCH] Small do_mmap_pgoff correction

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:14:51 -0800 (PST)


From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:13:57 +0100

Sincerely, I don't understand why this patch is bad. Is no worse
than the previous situation :??

How about something like:

if (len == 0)
return addr;

len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
if (len > TASK_SIZE || len == 0)
return -EINVAL;

That should cover all cases and not make the TASK_SIZE assumption.
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