Kees Cook wrote:
> I have struggled with this as well. The parts of speech change, and my
> grammar senses go weird. whitelist = adjective noun. allow-list = verb
> noun. verbing the adj/noun combo feels okay, but verbing a verb/noun is
> weird.
> And just using "allowed" and "denied" doesn't
Michal Hocko wrote:
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> What does prevent you from mapping a larger area and MAP_FIXED,
> PROT_NONE over it to get the protection?
Yes Thanks I will try. That's good.
>> > For THP, I believe, kernel already does The Right Thing™ for most users.
>> > User still may want to get speific range as
Sistare wrote:
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> A better heuristic would be to return an aligned address if the length
> is a multiple of the huge page size. The gap (if any) between the end of
> the previous VMA and the start of this VMA would be filled by subsequent
> smaller mmap requests. The new behavior would need
Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 03:28:37PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> Ok, I just wanted to ask the question. I've seen application code doing
>> the 'mmap sufficiently large area' then unmap to get desired alignment
>> trick. Was wondering if there was something we could
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