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nommu: fix an incorrect comment in the do_mmap_shared_file()

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Fix an incorrect comment in the do_mmap_shared_file().  If a mapping is
requested MAP_SHARED, then a private copy cannot be made and still provide
correct semantics.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dave Hudson <uclinux@blueteddy.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells 2010-03-23 13:35:21 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 28b8e8d4e2
commit 3fa30460ea
1 changed files with 3 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -1040,10 +1040,9 @@ static int do_mmap_shared_file(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
if (ret != -ENOSYS)
return ret;
/* getting an ENOSYS error indicates that direct mmap isn't
* possible (as opposed to tried but failed) so we'll fall
* through to making a private copy of the data and mapping
* that if we can */
/* getting -ENOSYS indicates that direct mmap isn't possible (as
* opposed to tried but failed) so we can only give a suitable error as
* it's not possible to make a private copy if MAP_SHARED was given */
return -ENODEV;
}