Re: 3Dfx module broken on 2.2.3

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@aivazian.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:02:36 +0000 (GMT)


Hi,

Yes, it is broken. There were two changes to mm/mmap.c:

a) in do_mmap()
vma->vm_file = file;
file->f_count++;

b) in do_munmap()

errno = -EINVAL; instead of 0, because Single UNIX v2 says so.

I have just checked that it is *not* b) that breaks it (thank heaven - for
b) was my patch :)

It appears that a /dev/3dfx usage count (file->f_count) is incremented but
not decremented. So I am suspicious of a) - perhaps there should be a
corresponding file->f_count-- in do_munmap() ?

I am trying to fix it now - will let you know if any luck.

Regards,
Tigran.

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