linux-kernel - [PATCH] Add additional error check to mm/mincore.c

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Date:	Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:48:27 -0500
From:	Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Add additional error check to mm/mincore.c

I some circumstances, mincore can succeed when it shouldn't.

Example:
  Two files are mmapped to a process and they are adjacent in memory.
If mincore is run with a requested length that is too large, the
function does not differentiate between the different file pointers
within the different vma structures and inappropriately returns success.

The attached patch, against 2.6.20.3, fixes this behavior.

This behavior was found when running the Linux Test Project's mincore01
on an IA32 system.  Test 3 "unexpectedly" succeeds.

  -- Bruce

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