From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
wezhang@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: sys_personality() && misc oddities
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 13:35:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFD8605.7080201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100526203105.59D7849A56@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On 05/26/2010 01:31 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> As for the other oddities, they need the separate patches. Or we can
>> just leave this code alone ;)
>
> I can't see any sign that anybody cares.
I certainly care, because we have had some very strange behavior with
weird personality bits in the past. So cleaning this up would be good.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-26 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-25 14:17 Q: sys_personality() && misc oddities Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-25 19:33 ` Roland McGrath
2010-05-26 12:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-26 20:31 ` Roland McGrath
2010-05-26 20:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-05-27 15:35 ` [PATCH 0/3] (Was: Q: sys_personality() && misc oddities) Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-27 15:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] sys_personality: validate personality before set_personality() Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-27 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-27 17:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-27 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-27 18:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-27 18:18 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-28 19:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] sys_personality fixes v2 Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-28 19:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] change sys_personality() to accept "unsigned int" instead of u_long Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-28 19:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] remove the bogus checks in sys_personality()->__set_personality() path Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-28 19:28 ` [PATCH 0/2] sys_personality fixes v2 Linus Torvalds
2010-05-28 19:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-28 19:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-27 15:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] sys_personality: make sure (int)personality >= 0 Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-27 20:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-28 19:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-05-27 15:36 ` [PATCH 3/3] __set_personality: no need to check the old ->exec_domain Oleg Nesterov
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