Re: 2.2.8pre6, can't run ZMAGIC binaries

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 12 May 1999 20:24:28 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 12 May 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> >We already do not allow anybody doing "mmap()" to have anything but page
> >alignment. The only loophole right now is "internal" mmaps in the kernel,
>
> It seems to me that we are allowing it also on not VM_SHARED or a file
> opened without O_RDWR:
[snip]
> (vma->vm_offset & (inode->i_sb->s_blocksize - 1)))
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ but here?
>
> Probably I am missing something in the whole picture...

Look at set_blocksize() and foo_read_super().

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