Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:39:02 +1000 | | From | Nick Piggin <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes |
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Pierre Peiffer wrote: > Nick Piggin a écrit : > >> >> But... that isn't there in mainline. Why is it in -mm? > > > This was introduced by lguest code.... > I did not follow exaclty why.
OK, that's no problem, then it can remain exported but we just have to document and audit that callers must pass in an aligned address. We can also BUG_ON(address & ~PAGE_MASK); to handle the security aspect.
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