From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:14:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42EEBAE1.7050002@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508010833250.14342@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Not sure if this should be fixed for 2.6.13. It can result in
>>pagecache corruption: so I guess that answers my own question.
>>
>
>Hell no.
>
>This patch is clearly untested and must _not_ be applied:
>
>
Yes, I meant that the problem should be fixed, not that the
patch should be applied straight away.
I wanted to get discussion going ASAP. Looks like it worked :)
I'll catch up on it now.
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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:14:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42EEBAE1.7050002@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508010833250.14342@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Not sure if this should be fixed for 2.6.13. It can result in
>>pagecache corruption: so I guess that answers my own question.
>>
>
>Hell no.
>
>This patch is clearly untested and must _not_ be applied:
>
>
Yes, I meant that the problem should be fixed, not that the
patch should be applied straight away.
I wanted to get discussion going ASAP. Looks like it worked :)
I'll catch up on it now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-02 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-30 20:53 get_user_pages() with write=1 and force=1 gets read-only pages Robin Holt
2005-07-30 22:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-07-31 1:52 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-31 10:52 ` Robin Holt
2005-07-31 11:07 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-31 11:30 ` Robin Holt
2005-07-31 11:39 ` Robin Holt
2005-07-31 12:09 ` Robin Holt
2005-07-31 22:27 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-01 3:22 ` Roland McGrath
2005-08-01 8:21 ` [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug Nick Piggin
2005-08-01 9:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-01 9:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-01 9:27 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-01 9:27 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-01 10:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-01 10:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-01 10:57 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-01 10:57 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-01 19:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 19:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 20:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 21:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 21:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 12:01 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-02 12:01 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-02 12:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 12:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 12:28 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-02 15:19 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-02 15:19 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-02 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 16:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 16:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 17:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 17:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 17:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 17:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 19:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 19:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 19:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 20:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 20:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-03 10:24 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-03 11:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-03 11:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-03 12:13 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-03 12:13 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-03 16:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-03 16:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-03 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-03 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-03 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-03 16:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-03 17:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-03 17:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-03 23:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-03 23:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-04 14:14 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-08-04 14:14 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-08-04 14:30 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-04 14:30 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-04 15:00 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-08-04 15:00 ` Alexander Nyberg
2005-08-04 15:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-04 15:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-04 16:32 ` Russell King
2005-08-04 16:32 ` Russell King
2005-08-04 15:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-04 15:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-04 16:29 ` Russell King
2005-08-04 16:29 ` Russell King
2005-08-03 10:24 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-03 10:24 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-03 11:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-03 11:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-02 16:44 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-02 16:44 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-01 15:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 15:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-03 8:24 ` Robin Holt
2005-08-03 8:24 ` Robin Holt
2005-08-03 11:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-03 11:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-04 11:48 ` Robin Holt
2005-08-04 11:48 ` Robin Holt
2005-08-04 13:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-04 13:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 19:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 19:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 19:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 19:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 8:07 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-02 8:07 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-01 19:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-01 19:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-01 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 0:14 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-08-02 0:14 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-02 1:27 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-02 1:27 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-02 3:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 3:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 4:25 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-02 4:25 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-02 4:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-02 4:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 20:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 20:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 20:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-01 20:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-01 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-01 20:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-01 20:51 ` Hugh Dickins
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2005-08-02 14:02 Dan Higgins
2005-08-02 14:02 ` Dan Higgins
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