Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Vyukov <> | Date | Tue, 2 Feb 2016 22:29:46 +0100 | Subject | Re: mm: uninterruptable tasks hanged on mmap_sem |
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On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > >> Original log from fuzzer contained the following WARNING in >> mm/rmap.c:412. But when I tried to reproduce it, I hit these hanged >> processes instead. I can't reliably detect what program triggered >> what. So it may be related, or maybe a separate issue. >> >> ------------[ cut here ]------------ >> kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:412! > > Are you by any chance in this test sending signals to the fuzzer? > > If so, the bug I just fixed in floppy driver can cause all kinds of memory > corruptions in case you're running multithreaded accessess to /dev/fd0 and > sending singals to the threads that are trying to access /dev/fd0 at the > same time. > > Could you please double check that the other floppy fix I've sent you a > couple days ago doesn't fix this as well? (this test makes sense only if > signals are involved though).
I have "floppy: fix lock_fdc() signal handling" applied (the final, second version). The process is multithreaded and it can well receive SIGKILLs.
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