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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:12:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm: introduce MAP_FIXED_SAFE
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To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>, Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>, Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> Except we won't export expose the new semantic to the userspace at all.

I'm confused: the changes in patch 1 are explicitly adding
MAP_FIXED_SAFE to the uapi. If it's not supposed to be exposed,
shouldn't it go somewhere else?

-Kees

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