linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] robust futex thread exit race

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Message-ID: <20070930195538.GA13881@elte.hu>
Date:	Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:55:38 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] robust futex thread exit race


* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:11 +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.
> 
> Here we go. Tested with current git and latest glibc tst-robust8 on 
> s390-64, native and compat.

excellent! This patch too looks good to me. I booted and tested it on 
x86 too (32-bit-native, 64-bit-native and 32-bit-compat-on-64-bit.)

	Ingo
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