From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] futex_compat: simplify pointer magic
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:35:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070910193516.GB4964@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070910191648.715953031@arndb.de>
* arnd@arndb.de <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> The futex_compat code currently mixes pointers to robust_list and
> compat_robust_list for no apparent reason other than requiring extra
> typecasts. It also uses an extra argument to fetch_robust_entry() that
> is not useful but has caused bugs to be introduced before.
>
> Clean up the code to get rid of all this and make the compat version
> look more like the native one.
yeah.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-10 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-10 19:13 [patch 0/3] futex_compat fixes arnd
2007-09-10 19:13 ` [patch 1/3] futex_compat: fix list traversal bugs arnd
2007-09-10 19:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-10 19:13 ` [patch 2/3] futex_compat: simplify pointer magic arnd
2007-09-10 19:35 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-09-10 19:13 ` [patch 3/3] futex_compat: update to match native version arnd
2007-09-10 19:35 ` Ingo Molnar
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