From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@austin.ibm.com>,
Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:49:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050223184946.GA11473@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502231033540.2378@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I suggest putting it into futex.c, and make it an inline function
> > which takes "u32 __user *".
>
> Agreed, except we've traditionally just made it "int __user *".
The type signatures in futex.c are a bit mixed up - most places say
"int __user *" but sys_futex() says "u32 __user *". get_futex_key
uses sizeof(u32) to check the address.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-23 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-22 19:06 [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 22:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 23:08 ` Greg KH
2005-02-23 11:24 ` David Howells
2005-02-22 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 22:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19 ` Chris Friesen
2005-02-22 21:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 22:42 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 23:23 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 11:39 ` David Howells
2005-02-23 16:22 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 18:44 ` David Howells
2005-02-23 14:49 ` Joe Korty
2005-02-23 15:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 17:10 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 17:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-23 18:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 18:49 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2005-02-23 19:12 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-24 0:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 18:37 ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 21:40 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 11:42 ` David Howells
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