I'm confused on this one. There are notes above which say that RHEL4 isn't impacted. In addition this bug is proposed for RHEL4.6. Can someone please describe exactly what's being requested?
Linus suspects this bug to affect ancient kernels including the 2.6.9 series. Rik could not reproduce it. I'll have a look at the code to see if the race is indeed possible. RHEL4 != 2.6.9 anymore either.
Hey Peter -- Any updates on this one? Thanks!
Yeah, I was about to close this as NOTABUG. I can't find any races, and the few people that said they had problems with mmap'ed files pre .19 went away - I poked a few privately but nothing came out of that.
Thanks, Peter! Sounds like the right thing to do then. Go ahead and we'll reopen if necessary.