current->addr_limit

DINH Viet Hoa (Viet-Hoa.Dinh@irisa.fr)
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:31:59 +0100


When changing current->addr_limit through the macros
get_fs() and set_fs() in the kernel or in a kernel thread,
do we need to lock anything to prevent anything else
from accessing our custom value of current->addr_limit ?

thanks.

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