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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix check after use in kernel/exit.c
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 09:53:22 +0100

>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> > > @@ -582,9 +582,9 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk)
> > > {
> > > struct mm_struct *mm = tsk->mm;
> > >
> > > - mm_release(tsk, mm);
> > > if (!mm)
> > > return;
> > > + mm_release(tsk, mm);
> >
> > thanks, applied. I'm wondering why this never seems to hit in
> > practice.
>
> actually, i unapplied it again because the patch is wrong: mm_release()
> has side-effects for kernel threads such as the deactivate_mm() [which
> is important even if the user-mm is NULL]. If the NULL mm dereference
> can really trigger then it should be avoided within mm_release().
>

Do you mean that the NULL check should be moved into mm_release()?

Thanks!


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