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    SubjectRe: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes
    Jakub Jelinek a écrit :
    > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
    >> get_futex_key() does a check against sizeof(u32) regardless of futex being 64bits or not.
    >> So it is possible a 64bit futex spans two pages of memory...
    >
    > That would be a user bug. 32-bit futexes have to be 32-bit aligned, 64-bit
    > futexes have to be 64-bit aligned.

    I am not sure what you want to say.

    User doing sys_futex64(0x......FFC, FUTEX_WAKE_OP, ...) and crashing kernel or
    corrupting data is ok because its a user bug ?


    User is allowed to do anything, kernel must check and protect innocents.
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