On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 9:55 PM Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 08:03:48AM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > > Create a guard area between VMAs, to detect memory corruption. > > Do I understand correctly that with this patch a user space program > no longer be able to place two mappings back to back? If it is so, > it will likely break a lot of things; for example, it's a common ring > buffer implementations technique, to map buffer memory twice back > to back in order to avoid special handling of items wrapping its end. I haven't checked what the patch actually does, but it shouldn't have any affect on MAP_FIXED or the new no-replace MAP_FIXED variant. --Andy
