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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: "Nicolas S. Dade" <n-dade@nsd.dyndns.org>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] fix SEGV in handle_page_fault() when current->mm is NULL
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 13:02:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705261302.29761.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070524092904.GB3768@sparc20.esperanza>

On giovedì 24 maggio 2007, Nicolas S. Dade wrote:
> In a non-uml kernel a get_user() when current->mm is NULL (kernel thread,
> or userspace process being torn down) returns error. In uml it SEGVs. The
> bug is that handle_page_fault() does not check for NULL before using mm.
> The trivial attached patch fixes this.
>
> -Nicolas Dade

Acked-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-26 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-24  9:29 [uml-devel] fix SEGV in handle_page_fault() when current->mm is NULL Nicolas S. Dade
2007-05-26 11:02 ` Blaisorblade [this message]
2007-05-30 15:30 ` Jeff Dike

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