Re: [PATCH 2/2] scripts/sortextable: set the variable mmap_failure

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 09:52:55AM +0530, Maninder Singh wrote:
> Currently mmap_failed variable is 1 for every case, so make it 0
> if mmap is success.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vaneet Narang <v.narang@xxxxxxxxxxx>

See section 11) of Documentation/SubmittingPatches on how the sign-off
chain should be done.

It is not clear from your current submission what Vaneet's role is in
the creation of this patch is. Ditto for your other patch.

> ---
>  scripts/sortextable.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/sortextable.c b/scripts/sortextable.c
> index 30b4e7c..0b6a31b 100644
> --- a/scripts/sortextable.c
> +++ b/scripts/sortextable.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ static void *mmap_file(char const *fname)
>  	}
>  	addr = mmap(0, sb.st_size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
>  		    fd_map, 0);
> +	mmap_failed = 0;

This mmap_failed thing looks like a disaster. It is only needed so
that we know to do munmap() but munmap() works even if the range is
not mapped so you probably could go and remove that mmap_failed thing
altogether.

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