From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cpumask: fix compat getaffinity
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 03:30:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273653045_3386@mail4.comsite.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005112013.56392.arnd@arndb.de>
At least for parsing, we need to allocate and parse NR_CPUS until
all places like arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/xics.c that compare a
user-supplied mask to CPUMASK_ALL are eliminated.
> Would it make sense to use my initial patch for -stable, which reverts
> the ABI back to before the change that caused the problem, but apply
> the correct fix (changing the ABI throughout) for future releases?
This would definitly be the conservative fix.
milton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-12 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-07 12:45 cpumask: fix compat getaffinity Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-08 8:30 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-08 9:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-10 23:43 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-11 1:47 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-11 3:13 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2010-05-11 5:51 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-11 6:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-11 6:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-11 15:20 ` Greg KH
2010-05-11 18:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-11 21:36 ` Greg KH
2010-05-12 8:30 ` Milton Miller [this message]
2010-05-14 12:39 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-17 6:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-17 18:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-18 0:57 ` Rusty Russell
2010-12-14 16:59 ` Josh Hunt
2010-12-15 14:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-22 23:30 ` Rusty Russell
2010-05-11 9:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-12 0:52 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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