Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of objects where the datacan be mapped directly

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:39:17 +0100 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Note that this fix does the following commit differently:
> > > 
> > > 	commit a190887b58c32d19c2eee007c5eb8faa970a69ba
> > > 	Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 	Date:   Sat Sep 5 11:17:07 2009 -0700
> > > 	nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()
> > 
> > I don't understand what you're saying here.
> 
> Sorry, I was attempting to point out that this appears to revert some of that
> patch - whilst this is true, it then implements the fix differently.
> 

OK.

And what are your opinions on the -stable desirability?
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