Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:00:39 +0100 | | From | Nick Craig-Wood <> | | Subject | Re: Reading /proc/kcore causes a BUG() |
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On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:06:42AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:14:55 +0300 > Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Nick Craig-Wood<nick@craig-wood.com> wrote: > > > Is a fix for this going to make 2.6.31? > > > > > > To replicate > > > > > > cat /proc/kcore >/dev/null > > > > > > See also > > > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13850 [snip] > > > I tried this on the latest git checkout (as of 2009-09-03 11:00 GMT) > > > under Xen as a domU. The bugzilla report states it happens on non xen > > > machines also. > > > > > > I know reading /proc/kcore isn't such a good idea, but badly written > > > backup scripts are triggering this on our customer's servers :-( > > > > AFAICT the bug was fixed but I can't seem to find the patches in > > Linus' git either. Lets CC Andrew and Hiroyuki-san. > > Ah, it's now tested under mmotm. please wait.
I tried mmotm but I couldn't get it to boot under Xen :-(
If you send me a patch against latest git I'm willing to test it (I tried to extract the relevant patch from mmotm but failed dismally)
Thanks
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