From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6652 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2015 22:51:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 6553 invoked by uid 48); 9 Feb 2015 22:51:37 -0000 From: "bugdal at aerifal dot cx" To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug nptl/14485] File corruption race condition in robust mutex unlocking Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:51:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: nptl X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: bugdal at aerifal dot cx X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: security- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00124.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14485 --- Comment #7 from Rich Felker --- Carlos, there's actually a still-open related Austin Group issue, number 864: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=864 If there's a desire from the glibc side that implementations not be required to handle the case of self-synchronized unmapping, please have someone make that case. I'd be interested in hearing some arguments on both sides, as I haven't really made up my own opinion on which way it should be resolved. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.