linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] init: use KERNEL_DS when trying to start init process

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Date:	Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:40:00 +0200
From:	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: use KERNEL_DS when trying to start init process

On 09.06.2011, 17:56 Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> ...Albeit by looking closer at the implementation of flush_old_exec()
>> I think we should just move the set_fs() call there and remove it from
>> the architecture dependent implementations of flush_thread() and
>> start_thread().
> 
> Yeah, that sounds like the sane (and safe - it won't matter if there
> are some architectures that get overlooked and then have a duplicate
> set_fs() somewhere) approach.

So the only question left: Should it be one patch moving the set_fs() call to
flush_old_exec() and also removing the redundant calls in flush_thread() and
start_thread() or should that be split into one for the set_fs() move and
multiple ones for the arch specific set_fs() remove?

Mathias--
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