Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi all, > > this series gets rid of playing with the address limit in the exec and > coredump code. Most of this was fairly trivial, the biggest changes are > those to the spufs coredump code. > > Changes since v1: > - properly spell NUL > - properly handle the compat siginfo case in ELF coredumps Quick question is exec from a kernel thread within the scope of what you are looking at? There is a set_fs(USER_DS) in flush_old_exec whose sole purpose appears to be to allow exec from kernel threads. Where the kernel threads run with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) until they call exec. Eric
