nommu: fix an incorrect comment in the do_mmap_shared_file()
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>
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 605ace8..e4b8f4d 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1040,10 +1040,9 @@
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;
}