Re: New do_mremap vulnerabitily.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> There is still a call to do_munmap() that does not check the return 
> code, called from move_vma(), which in turn is called in do_mremap().
> 
> Can that call ever fail and cause Bad Things to happen?

Yes it can fail, and no, bad things can't happen. We could return the 
error code to user space, but on the other hand, by the time the munmap 
fails we would already have done 90% of the mremap(), so it doesn't much 
help user space to know that the old area still has a vma, but no pages 
associated with it.

		Linus
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