Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:11:21 +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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* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 18:06 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> True. I'll update the patch and send it again with the Acked-bys.

thanks! Logistics-wise: given that v2.6.22 has this same bug too, it's 
not a .23 regression per se and could in theory be merged after the 
2.6.23 release too, into 2.6.23.1.

	Ingo
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