Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:11:02 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.17-mm2 |
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 07:43:14 -0700 "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@google.com> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:42:15 -0700 > > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > > >>his is caused by the vsprintf() changes. Right now, if you do > >> > >> snprintf(buf, 4, "1111111111111"); > >> > >>the memory at `buf' gets [31 31 31 31 00], which is not good. > >> > >>This'll plug it, but I didn't check very hard whether it still has any > >>off-by-ones, or if breaks the intent of Jeremy's patch. I think it's OK.. > > Aha, you're a genius!
That's not what my kids say.
> How the hell did you figure that one out?
Found a way to reproduce it - do `cat /proc/slabinfo > /dev/null' in a tight loop. With that happening, a little two-way wasn't able to make it through `dbench 4' without soiling the upholstery. Then bisection-searching. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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