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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: msync() bug
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:15:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010710161533.T1594@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010709170835.J1594@athlon.random> <20010711012524.A31799@weta.f00f.org> <3B4B0B1F.92EC5C0E@uow.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3B4B0B1F.92EC5C0E@uow.edu.au>; from andrewm@uow.edu.au on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:03:11AM +1000

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:03:11AM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus included the test for non-null page->mapping
> as well.  I wonder why.

I think it is because if you try hard you can map a dma page via
/dev/mem and then the driver can release the dma page (at rmmod for
example) before you munmap /dev/mem, and then the page goes in the
freelist and it is allocated as pagecache.

Andrea

      reply	other threads:[~2001-07-10 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-09  8:50 msync() bug Abraham vd Merwe
2001-07-09 12:32 ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-09 14:21   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-09 14:43     ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-09 15:08       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-09 17:37         ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-09 17:42           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-09 17:58             ` Hugh Dickins
2001-07-09 18:00               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-07-10 13:25         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-10 14:03           ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-10 14:15             ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]

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