Re: Understanding Linux addr space, malloc, and heap

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 16:37 +0100, Alex Bligh - linux-kernel wrote:
> 
> --On 21 October 2005 17:22 +0200 Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Ok I meant in the "while adhering to the standard" :)
> 
> More precisely, as per the man page:
> > POSIX.1b says that mprotect can be used only on regions of memory
> > obtained from mmap(2).
> 
> But what is interesting (if anything) is this:
> > ERRORS
> >        EINVAL addr is not a valid pointer, or not a  multiple  of
> >        PAGESIZE.
> 
> So if he calls mprotect with memory allocated by malloc (which should
> fail), why doesn't he get EINVAL? He says it returns 0 (meaning it
> succeeded). Which it shouldn't (unless he is stupendously lucky in
> malloc's allocation, in which case it should work).

it succeeds all right; it just does other things than you expect
perhaps ;)

your alignment code had a bug, so it would align potentially to the
wrong piece of memory


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