On Monday, 05 January 2004, at 17:21:52 +0100, Teófilo Ruiz Suárez wrote:
> What about 2.6? Is it fixed anyhow? > It seems to be fixed in 2.6.1-rc2, as Linus said. But the fix seems to be temporary while kernel gurus and the people in charge of libc agree on a better solution. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107332772321771&w=2 >From patch-2.6.1-rc2.bz2: diff -Nru a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c --- a/mm/mremap.c Mon Jan 5 22:49:37 2004 +++ b/mm/mremap.c Mon Jan 5 22:49:37 2004 @@ -315,6 +315,10 @@ old_len = PAGE_ALIGN(old_len); new_len = PAGE_ALIGN(new_len); + /* Don't allow the degenerate cases */ + if (!(old_len | new_len)) + goto out; + /* new_addr is only valid if MREMAP_FIXED is specified */ if (flags & MREMAP_FIXED) { if (new_addr & ~PAGE_MASK) Greetings. -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.6.1-rc1)
