Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:33:17 -0700 | Subject | Re: v2.6.31-rc6: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 |
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Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> > wrote: > > > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > > > I'm not certain who I should route this too, but I just had 2.6.31-rc6 > > fall over on me. I don't know how reproducible this will be but > > I have a full crash dump if someone is interested in looking into this. > > Looks like I was wrong. This is appears trivial to reproduce, > I have just reproduced it two more times in a row. I think > the problem is pty related. > > I was looking into a change in behavior on 2.6.31-rc6 where > data was being lost, and it appears one variant of my test program > kills the kernel. > > The following program run as an unprivileged user causes a kernel > panic in about a minute: > > aka > > while :; do ./KernelTtyTest ; done > > > oops.... It panics my x86_64 machine.....
I guess I forgot to mention that detail. Thanks for confirming this bug isn't just me.
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