Re: [PATCH] prevent NULL mmap in topdown model

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Why not just change the "addr >= len" test into "addr > len" and be done 
> with it?

If you're fine with not catching dereferences of a struct
member further than PAGE_SIZE into a struct when the struct
pointer is NULL, sure ...

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