Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct

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Hi,

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:46:43PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:

> For a read only case, the only important
> thing is not to die, one occurrence of bad data is tolerable.

Strong NACK. The pages where the bad data comes from may in some cases
already be reclaimed for other data, probably something security
relevant, which should never ever be given even read access by an
unauthorized user. Even if this event may be a very rare case, one
single occurrence of this is one to much.

Andreas

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Dafür nehm ich nichtmal Kaffee.
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