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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] robust futex thread exit race
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:11:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070930171121.GA10025@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191168625.19010.0.camel@localhost>


* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 18:06 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > good catch! A quick preliminary review of your patch indicates it's 
> > > fine - and it might be v2.6.23 material.
> > 
> > there's a symmetric bug in kernel/compat_futex.c too.
> 
> True. I'll update the patch and send it again with the Acked-bys.

thanks! Logistics-wise: given that v2.6.22 has this same bug too, it's 
not a .23 regression per se and could in theory be merged after the 
2.6.23 release too, into 2.6.23.1.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-30 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-30 15:02 [PATCH] robust futex thread exit race Martin Schwidefsky
2007-09-30 15:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-30 15:53   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-30 15:57     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-30 16:06   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-30 16:10     ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-09-30 17:11       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-09-30 17:32         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-09-30 19:55           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-30 23:41             ` David Miller

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