[PATCH]: trivial sys_mincore cleanup

[Gianni Tedesco]

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Patch makes 2 simple cleanups:
 - Checks the syscall parameters before grabbing mmap semaphore.
 - Tidy up a comment.

BTW. How comes mincore() doesn't return a bit vector? :P

diff -urN linux-2.4.19.orig/mm/filemap.c linux-2.4.19/mm/filemap.c
--- linux-2.4.19.orig/mm/filemap.c      Sat Aug  3 00:39:46 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19/mm/filemap.c   Fri Dec 20 11:11:56 2002
@@ -2736,21 +2736,21 @@
        int unmapped_error =3D 0;
        long error =3D -EINVAL;
=20
-       down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-
        if (start & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK)
-               goto out;
+               return error;
        len =3D (len + ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK) & PAGE_CACHE_MASK;
        end =3D start + len;
        if (end < start)
-               goto out;
+               return error;
=20
        error =3D 0;
        if (end =3D=3D start)
-               goto out;
+               return error;
+
+       down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
=20
        /*
-        * If the interval [start,end) covers some unmapped address
+        * If the interval [start,end] covers some unmapped address
         * ranges, just ignore them, but return -ENOMEM at the end.
         */
        vma =3D find_vma(current->mm, start);

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// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at ecsc dot co dot uk)
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