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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: recent change to exit_mmap
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Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
>
> It seems with the TIF_32BIT scheme we have a window between
> SET_PERSONALITY until exec returns where TASK_SIZE might be considered
> incorrect (although at which exact point to you decide that, yes we are
> now in the new context).
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this? Maybe we can move SET_PERSONALITY down
> after flush_old_exec.
> 

On seconds thoughts...

Are the first two SET_PERSONALITY() calls in there actually doing anything? 
Perhaps you're right, and we only need the one at line 615, whcih is in the
right place?

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