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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 19:46:12 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc-based cpu affinity user interface
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> The snippet I sent yesterday should be corrected by checking if
> cpu_{number,logical}_map(ii) is != -1 to avoid incorrect bit settings,
> expecially from mask coming from user side.

indeed. New patch is at:

  http://redhat.com/~mingo/set-affinity-patches/set-affinity-2.4.16-A1

(the buggy function was not a security problem, it just produces
unexpected bitmaps.)

	Ingo

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