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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] futex_compat: fix list traversal bugs
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:34:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070910193453.GA4964@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070910191648.561256021@arndb.de>


* arnd@arndb.de <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> The futex list traversal on the compat side appears to have a bug.
> 
> It's loop termination condition compares:
> 
>         while (compat_ptr(uentry) != &head->list)
> 
> But that can't be right because "uentry" has the special "pi" 
> indicator bit still potentially set at bit 0.  This is cleared by 
> fetch_robust_entry() into the "entry" return value.

hm. I remember having tested this - not well enough i guess :-/

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-10 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-10 19:13 [patch 0/3] futex_compat fixes arnd
2007-09-10 19:13 ` [patch 1/3] futex_compat: fix list traversal bugs arnd
2007-09-10 19:34   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-09-10 19:13 ` [patch 2/3] futex_compat: simplify pointer magic arnd
2007-09-10 19:35   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-10 19:13 ` [patch 3/3] futex_compat: update to match native version arnd
2007-09-10 19:35   ` Ingo Molnar

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