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Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> writes: > It is easy enough to fix by making the fault handler not take > mmap_sem if the fault's in the kernel address range. (With apologies > to the folk running kernel mode userspace...) It won't work because kernel can cause user space faults (think get_user). And handling these must be protected. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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