From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <42EEBAE1.7050002@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:14:25 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug References: <20050801032258.A465C180EC0@magilla.sf.frob.com> <42EDDB82.1040900@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Robin Holt , Andrew Morton , Roland McGrath , Hugh Dickins , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel List-ID: Linus Torvalds wrote: > >On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Not sure if this should be fixed for 2.6.13. It can result in >>pagecache corruption: so I guess that answers my own question. >> > >Hell no. > >This patch is clearly untested and must _not_ be applied: > > Yes, I meant that the problem should be fixed, not that the patch should be applied straight away. I wanted to get discussion going ASAP. Looks like it worked :) I'll catch up on it now. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org