Here is an accumulate patch of Herbert's and my changes.

I could see no reason for ftmp in flush_old_exec and load_elf_binary, so I
removed that. Please correct me if that is wrong.

Cheers,
Andreas.


On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:

> Hi:
>
> The steal_locks() call in binfmt_elf.c is buggy.  It steals locks from
> a files entry whose reference was dropped much earlier.  This allows it
> to steal other process's locks.
>
> The following patch calls steal_locks() earlier so that this does not
> happen.