On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 21:48 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ingo? Peter? I'm not sure anybody really uses UP+no-preempt on x86,
> but it does seem to be a bug.. Comments?

I believe a lot of people still use no-preempt. Well, at least voluntary
preemption, which would have the same bug.

I'm thinking that we may have just been lucky that gcc didn't move the
get_user() into a place that would cause issues.

Sounds like a bug to me.

-- Steve


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