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buffer cache invalidation implementation issues

Description:

Programming errors in the implementation of the msync(2) system call involving the MS_INVALIDATE operation lead to cache consistency problems between the virtual memory system and on-disk contents.

In some situations, a user with read access to a file may be able to prevent changes to that file from being committed to disk.

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Affects:

portaudit: buffer cache invalidation implementation issues

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>