Re: [PATCH] fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> The solution I did to solve this is to allocate a temporary buffer when
> setting up the block and free it in futex_wait_restart. This patch
> allows David's test program to actually pass.

No. Unacceptable. This is a memory leak in case nobody retries it. It's 
basically not how you can do this thing.

The *only* thing you can pass for a system call restart is the argument 
block register state. If that is not enough, then you cannot restart it. 
It's that simple.

Andrew, please do *not* put this in any queues. It's fundamentally broken, 
and cannot be fixed as is. 

		Linus
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