Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: use mm_struct to resolve gate vma's in__get_user_pages

From: Stephen Wilson
Date: Wed Mar 09 2011 - 07:39:17 EST


On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 06:06:17AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:19:30PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
> > Hmm..
> > Is this works? In exec() case task has two mm, old and new-borned. tsk has
> > no enough information to detect gate area if 64bit process exec 32bit process
> > or oppsite case. On Linux, 32bit and 64bit processes have perfectly different
> > process vma layout.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> Patch series refered to in [0/6] ;-) FWIW, that would probably be better
> off as one mail thread - would be easier to find.

OK. After the first half has gone thru review I will respin (with changes)
as a single series. I was actually hoping the split would make review a
little bit easier, but in retrospect I could have accomplished the same
thing by simply pointing out the two halves in the series "cover
letter".


--
steve

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