Re: [PATCH v8 09/10] x86, mpx: cleanup unused bound tables

[Dave Hansen]

On 09/11/2014 01:46 AM, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
> + * This function will be called by do_munmap(), and the VMAs covering
> + * the virtual address region start...end have already been split if
> + * necessary and remvoed from the VMA list.

"remvoed" -> "removed"

> +void mpx_unmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
> +		unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = mpx_try_unmap(mm, start, end);
> +	if (ret == -EINVAL)
> +		force_sig(SIGSEGV, current);
> +}

In the case of a fault during an unmap, this just ignores the situation
and returns silently.  Where is the code to retry the freeing operation
outside of mmap_sem?
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