1. insmod a module that kmallocs a page and writes an identifier
on the page and then printks the virt_to_phys and address.
2. a user task opens /dev/mem or /dev/kmem and reads every page
looking for the identifier -- the identifier is found at exactly
the expected position.
3. a user task opens /dev/mem or /dev/kmem and mmaps the page with the
identifier -- no identifier found.
4. the task in (3) is modified to try every page in mem or kmem -- no
identifier found.
5. If the kernel buffer is allocated statically, everything works as
expected.
This is on 2.1.89, but is the same on a couple of other versions.
Explanations?
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