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authorChristopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com>2012-02-02 11:34:09 +1030
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-02-02 12:55:17 -0800
commit8cdb878dcb359fd1137e9abdee9322f5e9bcfdf8 (patch)
tree146afc01f3c1d7cbc944328484d077032bc53bfd /mm/bootmem.c
parent24b36da33c64368775f4ef9386d44dce1d2bc8cf (diff)
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Fix race in process_vm_rw_core
This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/ for details). This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the previous version of this patch did. In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already are. Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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