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SubjectRe: WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get() (-mm 2007-11-06-02-32++)
In message <20071110145452.f6cf6326.akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton writes:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 21:12:47 -0500 Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>
> > Setup: FC6 system with MM snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32
>
> That's a bit old.
>
> > and these two
> > patches added:
> >
> > r-o-bind-mounts-track-number-of-mount-writer-fix-buggy-loop.patch
> > r-o-bind-mounts-track-number-of-mount-writer-fix-buggy-loop-checkpatch-fixes.patch
> >
> > Booting the machine, waiting a few minutes (not logging in or doing anything
> > else). I get:
> >
> > WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get()
> > [<c020282a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x12/0x25
> > [<c0203024>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
> > [<c0203120>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
> > [<c02c7f85>] kref_get+0x26/0x30
> > [<c02c731b>] kobject_get+0x12/0x17
> > [<c02c7770>] kobject_add+0x97/0x162
> > [<c02164e5>] uids_user_create+0x41/0x5d
> > [<c0216850>] alloc_uid+0xc9/0x171
> > [<c0219b50>] set_user+0x1f/0x93
> > [<c021b445>] sys_setuid+0x4b/0xcb
> > [<c02021fe>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x91
> > =======================
> >
> > There's no other indication where the setuid(2) came from, perhaps cron?
> >
>
> I have a feeling that this was reported before and that Dave and/or Greg
> looked into it. Were those two patches which Dave sent yesterday applied?

Yes, both of Dave's patches were applied. I'll give the latest -mm a try
first and see report comes up.

> It might be worth checking my current tree:
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

The above URL is very useful. Thanks!

I've got comments on my experience w/ the above URL, but I'll send those as
separate emails shortly.

Erez.
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