Re: [PATCH 0/6] freepgt: free_pgtables shakeup

[Russell King]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:00:54PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> And, whether FIRST_USER_ADDRESS is 0x8000 or 2MB,
> shouldn't your arch_get_unmapped_area be enforcing it?

Why should it?  arch_get_unmapped_area allocates address space dynamically
when NULL is passed, and always starts from TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE.  This
will be greater than 32K.

The protection against mapping things below 32K comes from the syscall
wrappers on mmap() and mremap().

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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