From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267440AbUHJGIf (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:08:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267442AbUHJGIf (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:08:35 -0400 Received: from acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de ([129.187.214.135]:37069 "EHLO acheron.informatik.uni-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267440AbUHJGIe (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:08:34 -0400 Message-ID: <41186660.9000403@bio.ifi.lmu.de> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:08:32 +0200 From: Frank Steiner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: FW: Linux kernel file offset pointer races References: <411736CB.2040607@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <1092062710.14129.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1092062710.14129.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 Alan Cox wrote: > If you want a fix now grab the Red Hat or SuSE published fixes. The > final stuff will probably look very different because Linus has > proposed a different solution that makes it harder for new drivers to > make the same mistakes again Thank you very much for clarifying this! 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