Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265560AbUATP26 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:28:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265572AbUATP25 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:28:57 -0500 Received: from gaia.cela.pl ([213.134.162.11]:23824 "EHLO gaia.cela.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265560AbUATP2z (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:28:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:28:50 +0100 (CET) From: Maciej Zenczykowski To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: i386/mm and openwall change Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 27 Linux 2.4.24 contains in arch/i386/mm/fault.c [around line 270] the following code. tsk->thread.error_code = error_code; Openwall 2.4.24-ow1 changes (fixes?) this to: if (address < TASK_SIZE) tsk->thread.error_code = error_code; else tsk->thread.error_code = 0; While Linux 2.4.25-pre6 contains: /* Kernel addresses are always protection faults */ tsk->thread.error_code = error_code | (address >= TASK_SIZE); I'm assuming this means the openwall change was an error? Cheers, MaZe. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/