Ar Mer, 2006-08-09 am 20:00 +0200, ysgrifennodd Edgar Toernig: > But anyway, correct me if I'm wrong, revoke (V2) not simply removes the > pages from the mmaped area as truncating does (the vma stays); revoke > seems to completely remove the vma which is clearly a security bug. > Future mappings may silently get mapped into the area of the revoked > file without the app noticing it. It may then hand out data of the new > file still thinking it's sending the old one. I agree with that point 100%. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
