Re: [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 9/26] 9: uprobes: mmap and fork hooks.

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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-04-18 18:29:23]:

> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 20:04 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > +               if (vaddr > ULONG_MAX)
> > +                       /*
> > +                        * We cannot have a virtual address that is
> > +                        * greater than ULONG_MAX
> > +                        */
> > +                       continue; 
> 
> I'm having trouble with those checks.. while they're not wrong they're
> not correct either. Mostly the top address space is where the kernel
> lives and on 32-on-64 compat the boundary is much lower still. Ideally
> it'd be TASK_SIZE, but that doesn't work since it assumes you're testing
> for the current task.
> 

Guess I can use TASK_SIZE_OF(tsk) instead of ULONG_MAX ?
I think TASK_SIZE_OF handles 32-on-64 correctly.

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar

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