Re: Bug in IO bitmap handling? Probably exploitable (2.6.5)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> 
> Can someone please confirm (or refute) the presense of the bug there?

Looks very true, and your patch looks fine too, except we should use
"get_cpu()" and "put_cpu()" to make sure that kernel preemption does not
change the CPU in the middle of the operation.

Thanks,

		Linus
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