Re: Really good idea to allow mmap(0, FIXED)?

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>>Is is really a good idea to allow processes to remap something
>>to address 0?
>>I say no, because this can potentially be used to turn rather harmless
>>kernel bugs into a security vulnerability.
>
>Let me see if I understand.  If the kernel does this somewhere:
[...]

For reference, please see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/22/90


	-`J'
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