Eric W. Biederman writes:
> In building a patch for 2.4.3 I also discovered that we are not taking
> the mmap_sem around do_brk in the exec paths.
Does that really matter? Who else can get at the address space? We
are a singly referenced address space at that point... perhaps ptrace?
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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