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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:15:00 -0700 (PDT)
To: ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Longstanding elf fix (2.4.3 fix)
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Eric W. Biederman writes:
 > In building a patch for 2.4.3 I also discovered that we are not taking 
 > the mmap_sem around do_brk in the exec paths.

Does that really matter?  Who else can get at the address space?  We
are a singly referenced address space at that point... perhaps ptrace?

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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