On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:03:36PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Well, they'll get what they deserve. I'm not convinced Dmitry's right
> about their nopage; and I'm not going to waste any more time working
> out ways to protect ourselves from them. Let's stick with the mspec.
I'm not just concerned about the ati driver. There's a lot of driver
that do or did really stupid stuff with mmap, including in-tree drivers.
the actual mmap() code is not actually a fastpath so additional sanity
checks can't hurt. It might not be worth the effort for ->nopage, though.
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