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    SubjectRe: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback
    On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:56:07 -0800 (PST)
    > David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
    > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    > > >
    > > > It'd odd that stories of pre-2.6.19 BerkeleyDB corruption are now coming
    > > > out of the woodwork. It's the first I've ever heard of them.
    > >
    > > Note that the original rtorrent debian bug report was against 2.6.18
    >
    > I think that was 2.6.18+debian-added-dirty-page-tracking-patches.

    That's right. Debian's 2.6.18-3, not -stable's 2.6.18.3 as Linus feared.
    I'll be sending 2.6.18-stable the fix to the msync ENOMEM-on-unmapped
    issue later today (that little buglet being what led them to integrate
    the much more interesting dirty page tracking patches, which happened
    to fix it in passing).

    Hugh
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