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Linus Torvalds 5307cc1aa5 Remove broken ptrace() special-case code from file mapping 
The kernel has for random historical reasons allowed ptrace() accesses
to access (and insert) pages into the page cache above the size of the
file.

However, Nick broke that by mistake when doing the new fault handling in
commit 54cb8821de ("mm: merge populate and
nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)".  The breakage caused a hang with
gdb when trying to access the invalid page.

The ptrace "feature" really isn't worth resurrecting, since it really is
wrong both from a portability _and_ from an internal page cache validity
standpoint.  So this removes those old broken remnants, and fixes the
ptrace() hang in the process.

Noticed and bisected by Duane Griffin, who also supplied a test-case
(quoth Nick: "Well that's probably the best bug report I've ever had,
thanks Duane!").

Cc: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-31 09:19:46 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
backing-dev.c mm: per device dirty threshold 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
bootmem.c
bounce.c block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support 2007-10-16 11:03:56 +02:00
fadvise.c
filemap_xip.c mm: write iovec cleanup 2007-10-16 09:42:54 -07:00
filemap.c Remove broken ptrace() special-case code from file mapping 2007-10-31 09:19:46 -07:00
fremap.c remap_file_pages: kernel-doc corrections 2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
highmem.c Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
hugetlb.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
internal.h Breakout page_order() to internal.h to avoid special knowledge of the buddy allocator 2007-10-16 09:43:01 -07:00
Kconfig small documentation fixes 2007-10-20 02:46:58 +02:00
madvise.c speed up madvise_need_mmap_write() usage 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Makefile memory unplug: page isolation 2007-10-16 09:43:02 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c memory hotplug: rearrange memory hotplug notifier 2007-10-22 08:13:17 -07:00
memory.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
mempolicy.c Uninline find_task_by_xxx set of functions 2007-10-19 11:53:40 -07:00
mempool.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
migrate.c Typo fixes retrun -> return 2007-10-20 02:13:26 +02:00
mincore.c
mlock.c do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmap.c fix mprotect vma_wants_writenotify prot 2007-10-23 08:32:06 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c fix mprotect vma_wants_writenotify prot 2007-10-23 08:32:06 -07:00
mremap.c sparse pointer use of zero as null 2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c NOMMU: mm/nommu.c needs linux/module.h 2007-10-29 07:53:26 -07:00
oom_kill.c oom_kill bug 2007-10-20 15:04:06 -07:00
page_alloc.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
page_io.c Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io 2007-10-10 09:25:57 +02:00
page_isolation.c memory unplug: page isolation 2007-10-16 09:43:02 -07:00
page-writeback.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
pdflush.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c Quicklists for page table pages 2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
readahead.c mm: bdi init hooks 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
rmap.c mm: document tree_lock->zone.lock lockorder 2007-10-17 08:42:46 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c fix tmpfs BUG and AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE 2007-10-30 08:06:55 -07:00
slab.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
slob.c Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
slub.c missing atomic_read_long() in slub.c 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse-vmemmap.c: make sure init_mm is included 2007-10-30 08:06:55 -07:00
sparse.c Revert "x86_64: allocate sparsemem memmap above 4G" 2007-10-29 14:05:37 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: clarify __add_to_swap_cache locking 2007-10-16 09:42:53 -07:00
swap.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
swapfile.c Replace CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND with CONFIG_HIBERNATION 2007-07-29 16:45:38 -07:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c r/o bind mounts: filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's 2007-10-17 08:43:04 -07:00
truncate.c Drop some headers from mm.h 2007-10-17 08:42:55 -07:00
util.c Slab allocators: fail if ksize is called with a NULL parameter 2007-10-16 09:42:53 -07:00
vmalloc.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
vmscan.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
vmstat.c oom: change all_unreclaimable zone member to flags 2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00