Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug

Alexander Nyberg wrote:

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:12:37AM -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote:

Ok, I applied this because it was reasonably pretty and I liked the approach. It seems buggy, though, since it was using "switch ()" to test the bits (wrongly, afaik), and I'm going to apply the appended on top of it. Holler quickly if you disagreee..

x86_64 had hardcoded the VM_ numbers so it broke down when the numbers
were changed.

Ugh, sorry I should have audited this but I really wasn't expecting
it (famous last words). Hasn't been a good week for me.

parisc, cris, m68k, frv, sh64, arm26 are also broken.
Would you mind resending a patch that fixes them all?

Thanks,
Nick

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