Re: [PATCH] Prevent NULL pointer deref in grab_swap_token

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:13 -0600, Dean Roe wrote:
> grab_swap_token() assumes that the current process has an mm struct,
> which is not true for kernel threads invoking get_user_pages(). 

well WHICH user ? ;)


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