From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751382AbWBPR0T (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751385AbWBPR0T (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:19 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:29339 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751382AbWBPR0S (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:26:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:24:35 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Daniel Walker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper , Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] lightweight robust futexes: -V3 Message-ID: <20060216172435.GC29151@elte.hu> References: <20060216094130.GA29716@elte.hu> <1140107585.21681.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1140107585.21681.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.2 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.2 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts 0.6 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Daniel Walker wrote: > Another thing I noticed was that futex_offset on the surface looks > like a malicious users dream variable .. [...] i have no idea what you mean by that - could you explain whatever threat you have in mind, in more detail? Ingo