Re: my slab cache broken on sparc64

[Andi Kleen]

"David S. Miller" <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> It would work if the access was surrounded by:
> 
> 	old_fs = get_fs();
> 	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
> 	... get_user(kernel_pointer) ...
> 	set_fs (old_fs);
> 
> But it is not.

It was supposed to be. I think we discussed it some time ago, but for 
some reason it was never changed. Will submit a patch in a jiffie.

-Andi (to blame for that code)