linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] procfs: fix mmap() for /proc/vmcore

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Date:   Fri, 18 May 2018 21:16:16 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     gor@...ux.ibm.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] procfs: fix mmap() for /proc/vmcore

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:12 PM Linus Torvalds <
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> (So we'd still have a "sb_maxbytes" that filesystems would fill in, but it
> would only be used as a "fill in inode value for regular files for this
> superblock").

Actually, maybe we could just make rw_verify_area() use the new
file_mmap_size_max() function.

We'd just remove the "mmap" part of the name, and have all IO (and all
mmap) use that limit.

That doesn't sound like a horrible idea to try for 4.18. Hmm?

               Linus