From: Andreas Ferber <aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Todd Inglett <tinglett@vnet.ibm.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SMP races in proc with thread_struct
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 16:21:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010504162126.A14679@kallisto.sind-doof.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF2A1CC.C22A48E7@vnet.ibm.com> <8541.988980403@ocs3.ocs-net>
In-Reply-To: <8541.988980403@ocs3.ocs-net>; from kaos@ocs.com.au on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:46:43PM +1000
Hi,
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:46:43PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> For a read only case, the only important
> thing is not to die, one occurrence of bad data is tolerable.
Strong NACK. The pages where the bad data comes from may in some cases
already be reclaimed for other data, probably something security
relevant, which should never ever be given even read access by an
unauthorized user. Even if this event may be a very rare case, one
single occurrence of this is one to much.
Andreas
--
>Ich nehm nicht mal Zucker in den den Kaffee.
Dafür nehm ich nichtmal Kaffee.
(Peter Backof + Bernhard Schultz in detebe)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-04 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-01 14:30 Todd Inglett
2001-05-01 16:50 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-03 11:47 ` Todd Inglett
2001-05-04 12:34 ` Todd Inglett
2001-05-04 12:46 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-04 13:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-05-04 13:38 ` Brian Gerst
2001-05-04 23:27 ` Keith Owens
2001-05-04 14:21 ` Andreas Ferber [this message]
2001-05-04 15:18 ` Todd Inglett
2001-05-04 16:04 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-04 17:52 ` [PATCH][RFC] " Alexander Viro
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