Re: [PATCH 0/4] exec: unify compat/non-compat code

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue Nov 30 2010 - 22:09:55 EST


> (remove stable)
>
> On 11/30, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > I'll send the cleanups which unify compat/non-compat code on
> > top of these fixes, this is not stable material.
>
> On top of
>
> [PATCH 1/2] exec: make argv/envp memory visible to oom-killer
> [PATCH 2/2] exec: copy-and-paste the fixes into compat_do_execve() paths
>
> Imho, execve code in fs/compat.c must die. It is very hard to
> maintain this copy-and-paste horror.

I strongly like this series. (yes, I made fault to forgot to change compat.c
multiple times ;)

Unfortunatelly, this is a bit large and I have no time now. I expect I
can review this at this or next weekend.....
Hopefully, anyoneelse will review this and ignore me....



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