Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:45:57 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v2] rmap: make anon_vma_prepare link in all the anon_vmas of a mergeable VMA |
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On 04/10/2010 07:26 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> This time we got stuck on the anon_vma->lock (yep, we've seen that > oopsie before). So, it might be that we _really_ are staring at the > wrong code... Back to square one.
This is a different bug, though.
If the null pointer dereference is gone, Linus's patch fixed that bug and we can move forward to fixing the anon_vma->lock bug.
I'll start auditing the code to see if we forget to unlock the anon_vma in some unlikely error path...
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