From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268728AbUHTUbf (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:31:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268727AbUHTU3h (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:29:37 -0400 Received: from smtp.virgilio.it ([212.216.176.142]:33427 "EHLO vsmtp2.tin.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268722AbUHTU2w (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:28:52 -0400 Message-ID: <41265EF2.3000703@crocetta.org> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:28:34 +0200 From: sandr8 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Con Kolivas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@gentoo.org, lartc@mailman.ds9a.nl, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] bio_uncopy_user mem leak References: <1092909598.8364.5.camel@localhost> <412489E5.7000806@kolivas.org> <1092923494.12138.1667.camel@watt.suse.com> <20040819195521.GC12363@tpkurt.garloff.de> <41256DC9.7070500@kolivas.org> <20040819233155.68c1411e.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040819233155.68c1411e.akpm@osdl.org> 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 Andrew Morton wrote: >Con Kolivas wrote: > >Uh, I guess that depends on how rested Linus feels when he returns. I >think there's a fairly significant networking fix too. As I said: we'll see > is that the one related to the qdisc private data alignment? if not, that one would be a urgent one too imho... i got many oops from the ext3 commit and this because all of the schedulers in the 2.6.8 and 2.6.8.1 traffic control suite are accessing data at slightly wrong positions. this because if any discipline different from pfifo fast is used, the kmalloc()ed memory is aligned in the old way, but then it is used in the new one. the results could be catastrophic whenever the accessed data is a pointer and the memory referenced is written to. :-\ Alessandro Salvatori