i386/mm and openwall change

[Maciej Zenczykowski]

Linux 2.4.24 contains in arch/i386/mm/fault.c [around line 270]
the following code.

tsk->thread.error_code = error_code;

Openwall 2.4.24-ow1 changes (fixes?) this to:

if (address < TASK_SIZE)
       tsk->thread.error_code = error_code;
else
       tsk->thread.error_code = 0;

While Linux 2.4.25-pre6 contains:

/* Kernel addresses are always protection faults */
tsk->thread.error_code = error_code | (address >= TASK_SIZE);

I'm assuming this means the openwall change was an error?

Cheers,
MaZe.

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