linux-kernel - Re: [rfc][patches] fix for munmap/truncate races

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Date:	Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:09:32 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patches] fix for munmap/truncate races

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Nope - ia64 check explicitly for precisely that case:
> [snip]
> ... and everything else doesn't look at start or end at all.

Ok, then I don't really care, and it certainly simplifies the calling
conventions.

                   Linus
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