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From: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-pre8 vm86 smp locking fix
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 23:36:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CED60D7.9E5032D7@daimi.au.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020523165105.A27881@redhat.com>

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 
> arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c performs page table operations without obtaining
> any locks.  This patch obtains page_table_lock around the the table walk
> and modification.

This patch can also be applied against 2.4.19-pre8-ac5.
The patch command does report:
patching file arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 124 (offset 27 lines).

Since this missing lock is completely unrelated to the
other bugfixes in vm86 I don't expect any bad interactions.

The pagetable access in arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c is related
to another access in arch/i386/mm/fault.c. Did anybody
verify that the other file does correct locking?

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-23 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-23 20:51 [PATCH] 2.4.19-pre8 vm86 smp locking fix Benjamin LaHaise
2002-05-23 21:36 ` Kasper Dupont [this message]
2002-05-23 21:57   ` Benjamin LaHaise

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