Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:47:00 +0000 |
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On Sad, 2005-01-08 at 20:20, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Seems to have no locking: needs to down_read mmap_sem to guard vmas. > Does it need page_table_lock? I think not (and proc_pid_statm didn't).
The mmap_sem is insufficient during an exec - something that the sys_uselib changes noted. It would work in -ac but thats a property of how I fixed it rather than how Linus fixed it for the base kernel.
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