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Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..)

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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, Greg KH <gregkh@...>, Alexander Viro <viro@...>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - 11:51 am

> and btw, there is no question what-so-ever about whether your compiler 

Pedant: valid. Almost all optimizations are legal, nobody has yet written
laws about compilers. Sorry but I'm forever fixing misuse of the word
"illegal" in printks, docs and the like and it gets annoying after a bit.


Agreed - the standard is not ambiguous here. (For reference the standard
says that a valid pointer must point at an object _OR_ one past the end
of the object (in the latter case it is not dereferencable)). So its a
compiler bug.

Alan


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Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.., Linus Torvalds, (Mon Oct 1, 11:41 pm)
[BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer..., (Thu Oct 4, 1:05 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Bill Davidsen, (Sat Oct 6, 1:36 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Hans-Peter Jansen, (Sat Oct 6, 4:29 am)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Hans-Peter Jansen, (Sat Oct 6, 7:29 am)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Chuck Ebbert, (Thu Oct 4, 5:50 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer..., (Thu Oct 4, 5:54 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Oct 4, 1:27 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer..., (Thu Oct 4, 4:44 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Oct 4, 5:21 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Paul Mackerras, (Thu Oct 4, 6:27 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Oct 4, 8:12 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer..., (Thu Oct 4, 11:22 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Oct 5, 3:43 am)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Oct 4, 1:17 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer..., (Thu Oct 4, 5:58 pm)
Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and MAX_ARG_PAGES, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer..., (Thu Oct 4, 4:47 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Oct 2, 4:12 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Oct 2, 4:31 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.., Thomas Gleixner, (Tue Oct 2, 11:30 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.., Eric St-Laurent, (Tue Oct 2, 11:53 pm)
[patch] net, 9p: build fix with !CONFIG_SYSCTL, Ingo Molnar, (Thu Oct 4, 7:55 am)
Re: [bug] crash when reading /proc/mounts (was: Re: Linux 2...., Alan Cox, (Wed Oct 3, 11:51 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.., Alistair John Strachan, (Tue Oct 2, 6:51 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.., Alistair John Strachan, (Sun Oct 7, 7:44 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series.., Glauber de Oliveira Costa..., (Tue Oct 2, 7:00 pm)
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