I went ahead and committed the change I described below. Now we
validate the len argument, but the probe never sets the affinity.
-Paul
Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
[snip]
>[...] If the
>potential races against an external entity or cpu going offline are a
>big enough concern, we could still make a set() call to validate length,
>but pass a NULL pointer for mask. Then we consider the validation to be
>a success if we get errno==EFAULT rather than errno==EINVAL (which works
>because len is checked first).
>
[snip]
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