Re: [PATCH] Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap

[Chris Wright]

* Eric Paris (eparis@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:16 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:00:51PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> > > This should be an unsigned long.
> > > 
> > > I wonder if the default should be for this value to be zero (i.e. preserve 
> > > existing behavior).  It could break binaries, albeit potentially insecure 
> > 
> > Agreed - DOSemu type apps and lrmi need to map at zero for vm86
> 
> And so it shall be!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>

With James' fix and real changelog ;-)

Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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