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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:08:02 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.19rc3aa4
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:02:18AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 	Merged async-io from Benjamin LaHaise after purifying it from the
> 	/proc/libredhat.so mess that made it not binary compatible with 2.5.
> 
> 	While merging I did a number of cleanups and fixes, to mention a few of
> 	them I fixed a shell root exploit in map_user_kvect by using
> 	get_user_pages (that honours VM_MAYWRITE), it avoids corruption of
> 	KM_IRQ0 by doing spin_lock_irq in aio_read_evt, and a number of other
> 	minor not security and not stability related changes.  Left out the
> 	networking async-io, it can be merged trivially at a later stage (if
> 	needed :).

Care to explain the problem and provide a separate patch for all the 
people who aren't using your tree of patches?  If there's a problem 
as you claim, then it likely affects map_user_kiobuf too.

		-ben
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