Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] proc: task_mmu bug fix. | Date | Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:15:46 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:49, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes: > > > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> > >> This should fix the big bug that has been crashing kernels when > >> fuser is called. At least it is the bug I observed here. It seems > >> you need the right access pattern on /proc/<pid>/maps to trigger this. > > > > Thanks. Do you think this is likely to fix the crashes reported by > > Laurent, Jesper, Paul, Rafael and Martin? > > So I haven't tracked down all of the bug reports yet. But the > few bits I have seen make it likely. First the task_mmu change > was one of the largest change in logic I had to make. Second > the ugly bug reports seem to be about an extra decrement. Third > it seems to be my task_ref work that is the most implicated. > > I will certainly follow and see what I can do to confirm that I have > gotten everything.
I can confirm it fixes the problem that I have reported.
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