>> to reproduce: extract the Makefile and modunload.S, type 'make' and './modunload'
>
>Reboots my machine, too.
>
>p.s. to the list: although it's a "amdk6" pgcc kernel, haven't encountered any problems yet, except
>this one.
For those who didn't understand it yet, Molnar Ingo posted a fix for this
"2.2.0 SECURITY" bug!
He posted it with the subject "[patch] 'coredump crash' fixed".
Perhaps it's better to re-post it:
--- linux/mm/mmap.c.orig Wed Jan 27 14:09:31 1999
+++ linux/mm/mmap.c Wed Jan 27 14:06:09 1999
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
unsigned long first = start & PGDIR_MASK;
- unsigned long last = (end & PGDIR_MASK) + PGDIR_SIZE;
+ unsigned long last = ((end-1) & PGDIR_MASK) + PGDIR_SIZE;
if (!prev) {
prev = mm->mmap;
Massimiliano Ghilardi
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