From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751328AbWDSXgH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:36:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751335AbWDSXgH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:36:07 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:29382 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751328AbWDSXgG (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:36:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:36:01 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Neil Brown Cc: Andrew Morton , Chris Mason , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] copy_from_user races with readpage Message-ID: <20060419233601.GO20834@opteron.random> References: <200604191318.45738.mason@suse.com> <20060419134148.262c61cd.akpm@osdl.org> <17478.46924.439611.402803@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17478.46924.439611.402803@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:18:52AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > I would agree with this. Me too. My patch was more relaxed, but there's no need to alter the real sigsegv case.