linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:45:01 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@...il.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, will@...wder-design.com,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED
 file segments



On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > +       vma = vma_merge(mm, prev, addr, addr + len, vm_flags, NULL, file, pgoff, NULL);
> > +       if (vma)
> > +               goto out;
> 
> You've made checkpatch unhappy ;-)

Yeah, we need to fix that piece of crud.

checkpatch, that is.

I think "git grep" is more important than the "ooh, I have a tiny d*ck, 
everybody else should have one too" argument against larger terminals.

		Linus
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