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SubjectRe: pinpointed: PANIC caused by dequeue_signal() in current Linus BK tree

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had a look and the panic actually happens in collect_signal() in here:
>
> static inline int collect_signal(int sig, struct sigpending *list,
> siginfo_t *info)
> {
> if (sigismember(&list->signal, sig)) {
> /* Collect the siginfo appropriate to this signal. */
> struct sigqueue *q, **pp;
> pp = &list->head;
> while ((q = *pp) != NULL) {
> q becomes 0x5a5a5a5a ^^^^^^^^^
> if (q->info.si_signo == sig)
> 0x5a5a5a5a is dereferenced ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> goto found_it;
> pp = &q->next;
> }
>
> Hope this helps.

0x5a5a5a5a is the slab poisoning byte, I bet somebody free's the thing,
and Ingo and I never noticed because we didn't have slab debugging
enabled.

Ingo, mind looking at this a bit?

Linus

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