linux-kernel - Re: get_user_pages vs mmap MAP

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Date:	Wed, 09 May 2007 10:08:34 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: get_user_pages vs mmap MAP_FIXED bug

Hi Rusty!

Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 17:41 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>>Fancy that! Thanks for catching it Rusty, does the following work for
>>you?
> 
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> 	After 24 hours, it seems to be holding up (the original problem showed
> up in lguest, which uses get_user_pages extensively).
> 
> Thanks!
> Rusty.

No, thank _you_ for finding the bug :)

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