Re: [GIT PULL] core kernel fixes

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue May 19 2009 - 16:53:01 EST




On Mon, 18 May 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> So we always had that write=0 mapping. And we did not notice that we
> always faulted in the futex functions which modify the user space
> variable simply because the fault was fixed up in the private futex
> fault handling code. The removal of that code led to the problem which
> we have right now.
>
> Correct fix below.

Ok, this looks fine to me.

Should I take it like this, or pull from something?

Linus
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