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Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Posted Jul 17, 2009 20:43 UTC (Fri) by stevenb (guest, #11536)
In reply to: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted by Trou.fr
Parent article: Linux 2.6.30 exploit posted

Then the author of the code should have made the pointer volatile, or he/she should protect it with a lock. The optimization that GCC did, appears to be valid (but IANALL).

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