linux-kernel - Re: Is it really correct to check for breakpoint in kernel space against ptracer's address space?

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2016 14:50:57 +0300
From:	Ruslan Kabatsayev <b7.10110111@...il.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it really correct to check for breakpoint in kernel space
 against ptracer's address space?

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> Is there any reason at all for TASK_SIZE to be different from TASK_SIZE_MAX?

The distinction originally appears to have been introduced by commit 8492980.