On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 05:45:46 UTC, Ian Munsie wrote: > From: Ian Munsie <[email protected]> > > This patch makes the mmap call fail outright if the requested region is > larger than the problem state area assigned to the context so the error > is reported immediately rather than waiting for an attempt to access an > address out of bounds. > > Although we never expect users to map more than the assigned problem > state area and are not aware of anyone doing this (other than for > testing), this does have the potential to break users if someone has > used a larger range regardless. I'm submitting it for consideration, but > if this change is not considered acceptable the previous patch is > sufficient to prevent access out of bounds without breaking anyone. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <[email protected]>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=5caaf5346892d1e7f0b8b7223062644f8538483f cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
