Re: [RESEND][PATCH] against mmap.c (do_mmap_pgoff) and a note

[DervishD]

    Hi Jörn :)

 * Jörn Engel <[e-mail]> dixit:
> >     There is a change in archs where TASK_SIZE is the entire
> > addressable space (like sparc64). Ask Dave S., again. The problem did
> > arise when TASK_SIZE is ~0. Then semantics change.
> True.  PAGE_ALIGN(-1) = 0 and that case would not get caught with the
> old code.  Looks good to me.

    This was pointed to me by Dave. I prepared a patch time ago just
for the case where 'len' was quite large, but I assumed that
TASK_SIZE was at least one less page than the entire addressable
space, which is not true. My fault O:))

    Thanks for pointing, anyway.

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    Good one ;))))

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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