On 08/19, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > The proposed fix looks correct, can you resend in a way that can be merged? OK, I'll send the same patch to lkml, the only change is s/xxx/still_valid/. > It's a bit strange that the file that > was opened by the ioctl() syscall gets released and this look like another bug we need to investigate, > Anyway the same race condition can still happen for a rogue page fault > that is happening when the core dump start so the above fix is needed > anyway. Yes. Oleg.