Re: [patch] fix for major securty problem in dquota code

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:34:50 GMT


Hi,

On 12 Mar 1999 11:08:10 +0100, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>
said:

> Andrea, if you got your head down in the dquota code (and have an idea
> about what is going on there) you might want to look at the fact that
> it is not SMP safe. I have a report from a guy who had it blow up on
> him like 1-2 times/day when running on SMP, whereas it seems to be
> fine on UP.

Umm, "blow up" is a bit of a vague term... :)

Any oopsen for us to look at?

--Stephen

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