Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:05:04 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: current->mm == NULL in security_vm_enough_memory(). |
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> Thanks for doing the bisection: perhaps that commit just changed timings.
As a PS: I'd still like to understand why this is timing sensitive and what has happened. We have other cases where khelper and the like mysteriously acquiring an mm might be had so it would be good to understand if this is a race between init/khelper setup as to whether it gets an mm and cloned.
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