From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266256AbUHIId0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:33:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266334AbUHIIdZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:33:25 -0400 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]:52414 "EHLO acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266256AbUHIIdR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:33:17 -0400 Message-ID: <411736CB.2040607@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:33:15 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jirka Kosina Cc: Giuliano Pochini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FW: Linux kernel file offset pointer races References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jirka Kosina wrote: > It hasn't been discussed here, but at > http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/gnupatch@411064f7uz3rKDb73dEb4vCqbjEIdw > you can find a patchset fixing (some of) the mentioned problems. This > patchset is from 2.4.27-rc5 So this is for 2.4. What about 2.6? Distributors like RedHat have patched their 2.6.7 kernel accordingly, but I haven't found anything similar in the kernel tree from kernel.org. Do you know if there is any a fix for the 2.6 tree, too? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049