Re: kernel crash

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:16:33PM +0200, Cyrille Ngalle wrote:
> This is just to reinforce the message below.

And why is it of interest to LKML?  I can think if no one here who'd
be interested in it.

> This crash is ver easy to reproduce.
> 
> Use bootldr (with the last patch from Nico)  [it also happens with
> Redboot]

It is not a function of the bootloader, this is irrelevent.

Also, I believe that the original posters message was an April Fool's
joke (was posted on the 1st April to the linux-arm lists).

However, the problem it describes is not, and I do have a fix in my
tree, but the delta between my last patch and my current tree is one
line, which hardly seems worth putting out a new ARM patch.

--- linux.rel/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c	Fri Apr  6 19:09:05 2001
+++ linux/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c	Thu Apr 12 16:30:25 2001
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@
 bad_or_fault:
 	if (type == TYPE_ERROR)
 		goto bad;
-
+	regs->ARM_pc -= 4;
 	/*
 	 * We got a fault - fix it up, or die.
 	 */


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