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| author | Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> | 2005-09-21 09:55:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-09-21 10:11:55 -0700 |
| commit | 7e2cff42cfac27c25202648c5c89f9171e5bc085 (patch) | |
| tree | 5579fa13b1fc8081201f05d687e6dc795d9d648f /include/linux/mm.h | |
| parent | 7e871b6c8f1f4fda41e51ef86147facecac3be9f (diff) | |
[PATCH] mm: add a note about partially hardcoded VM_* flags
Hugh made me note this line for permission checking in mprotect():
if ((newflags & ~(newflags >> 4)) & 0xf) {
after figuring out what's that about, I decided it's nasty enough. Btw
Hugh itself didn't like the 0xf.
We can safely change it to VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC because we never change
VM_SHARED, so no need to check that.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 0d94c94d9d81..097b3a3c693d 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); #define VM_EXEC 0x00000004 #define VM_SHARED 0x00000008 +/* mprotect() hardcodes VM_MAYREAD >> 4 == VM_READ, and so for r/w/x bits. */ #define VM_MAYREAD 0x00000010 /* limits for mprotect() etc */ #define VM_MAYWRITE 0x00000020 #define VM_MAYEXEC 0x00000040 |