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SubjectRe: Bug in IO bitmap handling? Probably exploitable (2.6.5)


On Fri, 7 May 2004, Stas Sergeev wrote:
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> Can someone please confirm (or refute) the presense of the bug there?

Looks very true, and your patch looks fine too, except we should use
"get_cpu()" and "put_cpu()" to make sure that kernel preemption does not
change the CPU in the middle of the operation.

Thanks,

Linus
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