On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 17:12 -0500, Greg Edwards wrote: > mmap_mem suffers from a lack of proper checks as well. For example, on > Altix page 0 of each node is reserved for prom and a read or write to it > will cause an MCA. mmaping /dev/mem with offset 0 will nicely explode. > Would adding a pfn_valid test in mmap_mem be the best bet, or could we > consolidate the checks currently in mmap_kmem into mmap_mem?
If you use /dev/mem you should know what you are doing. Even with "checks" dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mem will do bad things. Trapping obviously bad cases is fine, but complete sanity checking may actually be counter productive. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
