Khalid Aziz <[email protected]> writes: > A protection flag may not be valid across entire address space and > hence arch_validate_prot() might need the address a protection bit is > being set on to ensure it is a valid protection flag. For example, sparc > processors support memory corruption detection (as part of ADI feature) > flag on memory addresses mapped on to physical RAM but not on PFN mapped > pages or addresses mapped on to devices. This patch adds address to the > parameters being passed to arch_validate_prot() so protection bits can > be validated in the relevant context. > > Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <[email protected]> > Cc: Khalid Aziz <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga <[email protected]> > --- > v8: > - Added addr parameter to powerpc arch_validate_prot() (suggested > by Michael Ellerman) > v9: > - new patch > > arch/powerpc/include/asm/mman.h | 4 ++-- > arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c | 2 +-
These changes look fine to me: Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> (powerpc) cheers
