[PATCH] Remove CPU mask size detection from setaffinity

[Florian Weimer]

On 05/20/2015 06:27 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
>> The code looks quite broken to me and fails to achieve what it tries to
>> do, as explained in the commit message.
> 
> If there's a bug here that was user-visible in releases, it should be 
> filed in Bugzilla and the appropriate [BZ #N] notation / addition to list 
> of fixed bugs in NEWS added.

The existing bugs are not visible to applications.  There is a behavior
difference (fewer EINVAL returns), and the new behavior is more
consistent.  Or put differently, the kernel does not allow us to
implement the intended behavior, so if there is a bug, this patch does
not fix it.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security