Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote on 08/24/2006 10:15:17 AM:
> Ar Iau, 2006-08-24 am 08:32 -0500, ysgrifennodd Serge E. Hallyn:
> > > You also have to deal with existing mmap() mappings and
> > > outstanding I/O.
> >
> > That she does.
>
> I don't believe so from the patches.
>
> > > SysV shared memory
> >
> > standard mmap controls should handle this, right?
>
> No its rather independant of mmap
Under the covers it seems to use shmem. sys_shmget() calls newseg(),
which sets up the shared memory.
> > > mmap
> >
> > She handles these.
>
> I must have missed where it handles that.
revoke_mmap_wperm() walks current->mm->mmap and removes
the file write permission using do_mprotect().
We have test shmem and mmap programs in the ltp framework that
show this actually works.
Mimi
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