Re: [patch 1/3] futex_compat: fix list traversal bugs

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* [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> The futex list traversal on the compat side appears to have a bug.
> 
> It's loop termination condition compares:
> 
>         while (compat_ptr(uentry) != &head->list)
> 
> But that can't be right because "uentry" has the special "pi" 
> indicator bit still potentially set at bit 0.  This is cleared by 
> fetch_robust_entry() into the "entry" return value.

hm. I remember having tested this - not well enough i guess :-/

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

	Ingo
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