Re: [RFC][PATCH] fix move/migrate_pages() race on task struct

[Dave Hansen]

On 02/29/2012 12:31 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> What was the user-visible impact of the bug?

It'll probably oops dereferencing task->cred:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/23/302

Although I was never actually able to get it to trigger without some
code to enlarge the race window.

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