From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965760AbXDGLU0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 07:20:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965763AbXDGLU0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 07:20:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36831 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965760AbXDGLUZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 07:20:25 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 07:18:49 -0400 From: Jakub Jelinek To: Eric Dumazet Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , Ulrich Drepper , Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Ravikiran G Thirumalai , "Shai Fultheim (Shai@scalex86.org)" , pravin b shelar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes Message-ID: <20070407111849.GT355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek References: <20060808070708.GA3931@localhost.localdomain> <200608090826.28249.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <200608090843.52893.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <200703152010.35614.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <20070405194942.1414c030.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <20070407104339.6674336b.dada1@cosmosbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070407104339.6674336b.dada1@cosmosbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > get_futex_key() does a check against sizeof(u32) regardless of futex being 64bits or not. > So it is possible a 64bit futex spans two pages of memory... That would be a user bug. 32-bit futexes have to be 32-bit aligned, 64-bit futexes have to be 64-bit aligned. Jakub