Re: Missing up_read after get_user_pages in arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c?

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 00:26:53 EST




On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Mark Frazer wrote:
>
> Just browsing users of get_user_pages today and noticed what might be a
> bug.

Looks like it. It can only hit old 80386 machines (that code is disabled
by any CPU with a i486 MMU or better), and even then only when somebody
does something silly, but yeah, looks like a real bug.

Linus
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