Pierre Peiffer wrote:
Nick Piggin a écrit :But... that isn't there in mainline. Why is it in -mm?This was introduced by lguest code.... I did not follow exaclty why.
OK, that's no problem, then it can remain exported but we just have to document and audit that callers must pass in an aligned address. We can also BUG_ON(address & ~PAGE_MASK); to handle the security aspect. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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