From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
Cc: Jirka Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>,
Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FW: Linux kernel file offset pointer races
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 15:45:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092062710.14129.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <411736CB.2040607@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
On Llu, 2004-08-09 at 09:33, Frank Steiner wrote:
> So this is for 2.4. What about 2.6? Distributors like RedHat have patched
> their 2.6.7 kernel accordingly, but I haven't found anything similar in
> the kernel tree from kernel.org. Do you know if there is any a fix for
> the 2.6 tree, too?
If you want a fix now grab the Red Hat or SuSE published fixes. The
final stuff will probably look very different because Linus has
proposed a different solution that makes it harder for new drivers to
make the same mistakes again
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-09 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-05 8:42 FW: Linux kernel file offset pointer races Giuliano Pochini
2004-08-05 10:30 ` Jirka Kosina
2004-08-07 17:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-11 14:26 ` Andrey Savochkin
2004-08-11 21:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-12 7:55 ` Andrey Savochkin
2004-08-12 13:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-09 8:33 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-09 14:45 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-09 16:50 ` Jonathan Corbet
2004-08-09 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-08-10 6:08 ` Frank Steiner
2004-08-05 20:34 ` Alan Cox
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