linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] [v2] zram/xvmalloc: Close 32byte hole on 64bit CPUs

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1296290941.30654.9.camel@jaguar>
Date:	Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:49:01 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] [v2] zram/xvmalloc: Close 32byte hole on 64bit CPUs

On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 09:00 -0600, Robert Jennings wrote:
> By swapping the total_pages statistic with the lock we close a
> hole in the structure for 64-bit CPUs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/