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SubjectRe: [BUG] __write_lock_failed() oops
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
> After running 64 simultaneous tiobench 256's a few times,
> I get the following oops, which I've been seeing intermittently
> for a number of 2.5.x releases (since 2.5.x booted on NUMA-Q):
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0xc0106693 in __write_lock_failed () at semaphore.c:176
> 176 semaphore.c: No such file or directory.
> in semaphore.c
>
> for some reason, I'm unable to get a backtrace:
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0xc0106693 in __write_lock_failed () at semaphore.c:176
> Reply contains invalid hex digit 36
>

That's all the assembly hacks in the rwlock code not having proper
stack frames. You may have to ksymoops it.

At a guess: use-after-free bug against an address_space. You may
be able to catch it with slab poisoning.
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