linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of objects where the data can be mapped directly

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Message-ID: <8852.1253839157@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:39:17 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	graff.yang@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi, lethal@...ux-sh.org, mel@....ul.ie,
	gerg@...pgear.com, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of objects where the data can be mapped directly

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > Note that this fix does the following commit differently:
> > 
> > 	commit a190887b58c32d19c2eee007c5eb8faa970a69ba
> > 	Author: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> > 	Date:   Sat Sep 5 11:17:07 2009 -0700
> > 	nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()
> 
> I don't understand what you're saying here.

Sorry, I was attempting to point out that this appears to revert some of that
patch - whilst this is true, it then implements the fix differently.

David
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