Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2025-04-10

Re: [PATCH man] mmap.2: Document danger of mappings larger than PTRDIFF_MAX

From: Jakub Wilk <hidden>
Date: 2025-04-09 20:25:59
Also in: linux-mm

* Jann Horn [off-list ref], 2025-04-09 22:03:
- glibc malloc restricts object size to <=PTRDIFF_MAX in
  checked_request2size()
FWIW, this is done only since glibc v2.30 (released in 2019):
https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=9bf8e29ca136094f

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Jakub Wilk
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