Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:45:09 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.26 broken on headless boxes |
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 04:07:06PM -0700, James Simmons wrote: > > > I also see similar problems on x86-64 in 2.5.25. The kernel quickly crashes > > when trying to return from opost_write() because something below has zeroed > > out the stack (with serial console and vga console and early console enabled) > > I have not tried it with 2.5.26 yet. > > It is the result of registering the console device first for printk and > then later registering the tty device. Eventually I like to be able to > have VT_CONSOLE independent of CONFIG_VT so we could have a light weight > printk. The goal is register tty device once we find a keyboard of some > kind.
Could you explain to me how this causes a stack overwrite with the current kernel ? I would like to fix this ASAP because it is a showstopper for me in 2.5 right now.
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