Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:45:41AM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> > > Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > > current cpu (and maybe current pid) somehow. And it would be possible
> > > > to avoid preemption while in a vsyscall text page, some other Unix
> > > > variants do this to implement portions of the thread library in kernel
> > > > provided user text pages.
> > > >
> > > Now there is an idea! Lock preemption in user space if and
> >
> > sounds not good to me, you would miss a wakeup and you would delay the
> > schedule of 1/HZ in the worst (close to the common) case.
>
> That's not the real problem.
>
> The real problem is that somebody can jump into the middle of a function
> (or even into the middle of an instruction), causing the function to do
> something totally different from the intended effect.
>
> In particular, it can cause the function to loop forever.
>
> If you disable preemption of user space, you now killed the machine.
>
> In short - others may do it, but it's a total _DISASTER_ from a security
> and stability standpoint. Don't go there.
Oops, hadn't thought of that. Back out, undo, etc. :)
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