Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:14:44 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: fanotify bug on gdb -- hard crash |
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On Fri 2014-12-26 22:45:38, ivo welch wrote: > I am not a kernel developer, so forgive the intrusion.
Good bug reports are always welcome.
> I suspect I have found either a bug in gdb (less likely) or a bug in > fanotify (more likely). it is replicable, and the code is almost > unchanged from the example in the fanotify man page. to trigger it, > all an su needs to do is to step through the program below with gdb > 7.8.1 'n' command, and linux locks up the system pretty hard (reboot
Hard lockup -> this can't be gdb problem.
> required). I have confirmed the replicability of this issue on a > clean arch 2014.12.01 3.17.6-1 system and on a clean ubuntu 14.10 > system, both VMs created just to check it. /iaw
Does it need root priviledges to trigger?
Best regards, Pavel
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