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get_user_pages(), pinned pages, and DAX

get_user_pages(), pinned pages, and DAX

Posted Jun 28, 2019 5:16 UTC (Fri) by shentino (guest, #76459)
In reply to: get_user_pages(), pinned pages, and DAX by jgg
Parent article: get_user_pages(), pinned pages, and DAX

Accessing a range of an MMAP'ed file that's been truncated at the filesystem level is analogous to trying to access a range of physical memory that does not exist.

In this case it is very much the virtual equivalent of a bus error so a SIGBUS is completely appropriate given the insanity already present of whatever got the file truncated to begin with.


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