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Revision c517d838eb7d07bbe9507871fab3931deccff539 authored by Linus Torvalds on 23 February 2015, 02:21:14 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 23 February 2015, 02:21:14 UTC 
Linux 4.0-rc1
 
.. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to
the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad.

Big surprise.

But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38%
margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in.
Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who
can't even follow the most basic directions?

In contrast, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by a slimmer margin of 56-to-44%,
but with a total of 29,110 votes right now.

Now, arguably, that vote spread is only about 3,200 votes, which is less
than the almost six thousand votes that the "please ignore" poll got, so
it could be considered noise.

But hey, I asked, so I'll honor the votes.
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min_addr.c 
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>

/* amount of vm to protect from userspace access by both DAC and the LSM*/
unsigned long mmap_min_addr;
/* amount of vm to protect from userspace using CAP_SYS_RAWIO (DAC) */
unsigned long dac_mmap_min_addr = CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR;
/* amount of vm to protect from userspace using the LSM = CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR */

/*
 * Update mmap_min_addr = max(dac_mmap_min_addr, CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR)
 */
static void update_mmap_min_addr(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
	if (dac_mmap_min_addr > CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR)
		mmap_min_addr = dac_mmap_min_addr;
	else
		mmap_min_addr = CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR;
#else
	mmap_min_addr = dac_mmap_min_addr;
#endif
}

/*
 * sysctl handler which just sets dac_mmap_min_addr = the new value and then
 * calls update_mmap_min_addr() so non MAP_FIXED hints get rounded properly
 */
int mmap_min_addr_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
			  void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
{
	int ret;

	if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
		return -EPERM;

	ret = proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);

	update_mmap_min_addr();

	return ret;
}

static int __init init_mmap_min_addr(void)
{
	update_mmap_min_addr();

	return 0;
}
pure_initcall(init_mmap_min_addr);
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