On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 17:22:29 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 11/04, Oleg Nesterov wrote: >> >> But in any case, I strongly believe that it doesn't make any sense to >> rely on tu->inode in get_user_vaddr(). > > Hmm. But I forgot about the case when you probe the function in libc > and want to dump the variable in libc...
Right. Actually that's what I really wanted. > > So probably I was wrong and this all needs more thinking. Damn. :) > Perhaps we really need to pass @file/offset, but it is not clear what > we can do with bss/anon-mapping. The @file/offset should work with bss since data in bss is accessed via an offset in the program, but still anon-mapping has nothing to do with it. Hmm... Thanks, Namhyung -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/