Re: Possible shared mapping bug in 2.4.23 (at least MIPS/Sparc)

From: Ralf Baechle
Date: Sat Dec 13 2003 - 11:07:11 EST


On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:41:34AM +0000, Peter Horton wrote:

> The current MIPS 2.4 kernel (from CVS) currently allows fixed shared
> mappings to violate D-cache aliasing constraints.
>
> The check for illegal fixed mappings is done in
> arch_get_unmapped_area(), but these mappings are granted in
> get_unmapped_area() and arch_get_unmapped_area() is never called.
>
> A quick look at sparc and sparc64 seem to show the same problem.

Ehh... <asm/pgtable.h> defines HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA therefore
get_unmapped_area calls the arch's version of arch_get_unmapped_area
instead of the generic version in mm/mmap.c

Ralf
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