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SubjectRe: futex: Switch to USER_DS for futex test (was: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the tip tree)
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:19 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 01/14/2014 05:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>
>>> This seems terribly broken, the *futex_value*() ops should not need
>>> that; they are supposed to access userspace without any of that.
>>
>> Why don't they need set_fs(USER_DS)?
>
> Because USER_DS is the normal operating state? It would appear m68k is

Is it?

> the only(?) arch that calls initcalls with get_fs() == KERNEL_DS...

On ARM:

fs = 0x0, USER_DS = 0xbf000000, KERNEL_DS = 0x0

Presumably also on s390, as the fix for m68k broke s390. That's why it's still
in -mm and not yet in mainline.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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