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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: introduce MAP_VALIDATE, a mechanism for for safely defining new mmap flags
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:01:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jvTB4Aiei1-fGybyJNopXQy9zADpnFcuRNdZCS4Mf1QQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170831100359.GD21443-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:03 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * The historical set of flags that all mmap implementations implicitly
>> + * support when file_operations.mmap_supported_mask is zero. With the
>> + * mmap3 syscall the deprecated MAP_DENYWRITE and MAP_EXECUTABLE bit
>> + * values are explicitly rejected with EOPNOTSUPP rather than being
>> + * silently accepted.
>> + */
>
> no mmap3 syscall here :)

True, that's stale.

> Do you also need to update the nommu mmap implementation?

Ugh, nommu defeats the MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE proposal from Linus.

        if ((flags & MAP_TYPE) != MAP_PRIVATE &&
            (flags & MAP_TYPE) != MAP_SHARED)
                return -EINVAL;

...parisc strikes again.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-01  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-30 23:08 [PATCH 0/2] MAP_VALIDATE and mmap flags validation Dan Williams
     [not found] ` <150413449482.5923.1348069619036923853.stgit-p8uTFz9XbKj2zm6wflaqv1nYeNYlB/vhral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-30 23:08   ` [PATCH 1/2] vfs: add flags parameter to ->mmap() in 'struct file_operations' Dan Williams
     [not found]     ` <150413450036.5923.13851061508172314879.stgit-p8uTFz9XbKj2zm6wflaqv1nYeNYlB/vhral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-31 10:02       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-01  0:54         ` Dan Williams
2017-08-30 23:08   ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: introduce MAP_VALIDATE, a mechanism for for safely defining new mmap flags Dan Williams
2017-08-31 10:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]       ` <20170831100359.GD21443-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-01  1:01         ` Dan Williams [this message]
     [not found]           ` <CAPcyv4jvTB4Aiei1-fGybyJNopXQy9zADpnFcuRNdZCS4Mf1QQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-01  1:27             ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]               ` <CA+55aFwsfUj1f41w8hqt9LN3-ajmJ=2AB1Nb6ZzwHgE1OKxGOw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-01  1:40                 ` Dan Williams
2017-09-01  7:34                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-31 16:49     ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]       ` <CA+55aFzo4oV87tVjEzx+cHVxfihm=31+fWtsdWow3AmfsdzJJw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-31 21:31         ` Dan Williams

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