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Bug#503821: Purpose of features/all/xen/workaround-pte-file.patch?



On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 14:02 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:30:16AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > However I assume the workaround is there for a specific purpose, what
> > > was it?
> > A crash in mprotect.
> 
> Maybe its the best to remove the workaround and instead cripple mprotect
> to not allow PROT_NONE for now. And then hope that this can't be
> triggered by mmap with PROT_NONE.

I was thinking of going down the path of removing the workaround then
fixing mprotect, so your suggestion would be a consistant first step I
think.

Ian.
-- 
Ian Campbell

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
		-- Ken Kesey

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