linux-kernel - Re: vdso && f_op->mremap (Was: special_mapping

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:09:56 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: vdso && f_op->mremap (Was: special_mapping_fault() is broken)

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> In short. Shouldn't we move ->mremap() to vm_operations_struct before
> it has another user? We need to fix aio.c, but this is trivial.
>
> No?

Sounds like the right thing to do, but maybe there's some reason I
miss that it's the way it is..

            Linus
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