David Gibson wrote on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 4:14 PM
> First bug (confirmed many months ago by Chris Wedgwood) - you can get
> weird effects if you attempt to mmap() something into one of the
> address space gaps. The ia64 outer wrapper for mmap2() tries to
> prevent it, but doesn't do a good enough job, it's still possible
> indirectly with shmat() and maybe mremap(). Basic trouble is that
> most of the checks applied by the generic code assume that everything
> between 0 and TASK_SIZE is valid.
Ha ha ha.
On ia64, the low level tlb fault handler (vhpt_miss and nested_dtlb_miss)
checks that all unused address bits (between REGION_NUMBER and PGDIR_SHIFT)
should be all zero. If they are not zero, it will fall into page fault
handler and in there, ia64 should just send SEGV instead of happily hand
over a page. Buggy buggy....
- Ken
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