Re: Request for backport of [PARISC] futex: special case cmpxchg NULL in kernel space

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:45:11AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> This is a fix for a bug introduced by tglx into 2.6.25 which we fixed
> upstream.  However, he also got it backported to stable, so now 2.6.24.4
> panics on boot on parisc.  The attached is the fix.
> 

The fix is fine, but it was misdiagnosed. The problem is actually that
swapper's *mm is unset. I switched it to if (!current->mm) in git,
but as usual I'm a slacker and haven't pushed it anywhere.

+1 for stable from me.
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