Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:40:55 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Incoming XPC channel messages can come in after the channel's partition structures have been torn down. |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:35:08 -0500 Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
> Under some workloads, some channel messages have been observed being > delayed on the sending side past the point where the receiving side > has been able to tear down its partition structures. This condition is > already detected in xpc_handle_activate_IRQ_uv(), but that information > is not given to xpc_handle_activate_mq_msg_uv(). As a result, > xpc_handle_activate_mq_msg_uv() assumes the structures still exist and > references them.
With what result? Machine goes boom?
Would you consider this a 2.6.36 fix? Backport to -stable?
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