2007-02-07 19:55:42

by Jeff Dike

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Subject: [PATCH 5/7] UML - ELF locking commentary

Comment the lack of locking of the elf data extracted from the ELF headers
passed to UML.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
--
arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-mm.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c 2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c 2007-01-09 15:33:31.000000000 -0500
@@ -21,12 +21,11 @@ typedef Elf32_auxv_t elf_auxv_t;
typedef Elf64_auxv_t elf_auxv_t;
#endif

+/* These are initialized very early in boot and never changed */
char * elf_aux_platform;
long elf_aux_hwcap;
-
unsigned long vsyscall_ehdr;
unsigned long vsyscall_end;
-
unsigned long __kernel_vsyscall;

__init void scan_elf_aux( char **envp)