On 03/28/2017 05:42 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:47:55 -0600 Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:19 PM, SeongJae Park <sj38.park@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Man page of mmap() says that portable applications should ensure fd >>>> argument to be -1 if MAP_ANONYMOUS flag is set as below: >>>> ``` >>>> The mapping is not backed by any file; its contents are initialized to >>>> zero. The fd and offset arguments are ignored; however, some >>>> implementations require fd to be -1 if MAP_ANONYMOUS (or >>>> MAP_ANON) is specified, and portable applications >>>> should ensure this. >>>> ``` >>>> >>>> However, few mmap() calls under selftests/vm/ uses 0 as fd though they >>>> use MAP_ANONYMOUS flag. This commit changes the argument to be -1 as >>>> recommended. >> >> Hi Andrew, >> >> Do you have comments on this patch? Please Ack it if you would >> like me to take it thorugh ksefltest tree. > > Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks. Applied to linux-kselftest next -- Shuah -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
