Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:06:01 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] robust futex thread exit race
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ingo,
> > I finally found the bug that causes tst-robust8 from the glibc to fail
> > on s390x. Turned out to be a common code problem with the processing of
> > the robust futex list. The patch below fixes the bug for me.
> 
> good catch! A quick preliminary review of your patch indicates it's 
> fine - and it might be v2.6.23 material.

there's a symmetric bug in kernel/compat_futex.c too.

	Ingo
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