Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2004 13:02:51 +0200 | From | Marcin Rożek <> | Subject | Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c |
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Yes it is quite serious... the VM is trying to free a page with ->mapping > set (probably a pagecache page) which is not valid thing to happen (thus the BUG). > > You can move to v2.4.27 to confirm you see or do not see the problem there. It's a grsecurity bug: http://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?t=933 On clean 2.4.27 everything works fine. It happens only when MPROTECT is turned off in the kernel.
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