On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:29:47AM -0800, David Daney wrote: >> Notice the branch at the end of the fixup code, it goes back to the >> SC instruction. The SC instruction took an exception so it will not have >> changed $1 so the loop will continue endless unless by coincidence the >> value to be stored from $1 happened to be zero. >> >> Obviously this one was MIPS specific and may hit all supported ABIs. So >> my initial suspicion this might be the issue David Miller recently >> discovered in the binary compat code isn't true. And it's a local DoS >> probably for all of 2.6.16 and up. >> > > I mostly similar code is in 2.6.15, so I think it is effected as well. > 2.6.12 on the other hand doesn't seem to have futex.h It originally appeared in the lmo kernel for 2.6.14-rc1 and a little after the 2.6.14 release in kernel.org. If I say 2.6.16 then it's simply that I don't ever look at anything that doesn't have a -stable branch. Ralf
