Re: [PATCH] robust futex thread exit race

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Sep 30 2007 - 13:12:54 EST



* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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