This patchset fixes an issue, pointed out by Al Viro, in how vhost net calls use_mm, Works fine for me, and it's pretty straightforward. If no one sees any issues with it, this will be a good candidate for 2.6.33 (assuming vhost net itself gets pulled :( ). Michael S. Tsirkin (3): vhost: prevent modification of an active ring vhost: add access_ok checks vhost: make default mapping empty by default drivers/vhost/net.c | 23 ++++++-- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 153 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 2 + 3 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- MST
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:46:08 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:> This patchset fixes an issue, pointed out by Al Viro, in how vhost net > calls use_mm, Works fine for me, and it's pretty straightforward. If no > one sees any issues with it, this will be a good candidate for 2.6.33 > (assuming vhost net itself gets pulled :( ).No, Linus didn't respond to either pull request. Either he considers it a new driver and hence not in a hurry to enter merge window, or there's some other issue. I've taken these fixes too, meanwhile. Thanks, Rusty.