Re: [PATCH 3/3] security: allow capable check to permit mmap or low vm space

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Eric Paris wrote:

> On a kernel with CONFIG_SECURITY but without an LSM which implements
> security_file_mmap it is impossible for an application to mmap addresses
> lower than mmap_min_addr.

Actually, should we be doing any checking in the dummy module, given that 
it is not done with !CONFIG_SECURITY ?



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