Re: [PATCH] Longstanding elf fix (2.4.3 fix)

[David S. Miller]

Eric W. Biederman writes:
 > In building a patch for 2.4.3 I also discovered that we are not taking 
 > the mmap_sem around do_brk in the exec paths.

Does that really matter?  Who else can get at the address space?  We
are a singly referenced address space at that point... perhaps ptrace?

Later,
David S. Miller
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