Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:21:41 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Still a mm bug in the fork error path |
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, John Byrne wrote: > > In my kernel, it was a SIGKILL to a forking kernel thread that caused > the problem. While I see SIGKILLs being sent to some kernel threads, I > don't know if any of the kernel threads ever fork. If they don't, > barring a demented root user sending SIGKILLs to kernel threads, I don't > know if anyone else will ever see this. So, I don't have any problems > with it being fixed post 2.6.9.
Heh. Andrew picked up the patch anyway, so in it goes.
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