Re: [uml-devel] Re: UML fills /tmp irreversibly (2.6.9-bb4 on SuSE 9.2)

["Armin M. Warda" <Armin.Warda@gmx.de>]

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On Tuesday 11 January 2005 17:58, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> Once it is tested and confirmed that this patch actually fixes the
> issue I can take care to put it into the suse kernel and get it
> released with the next security update kernel.  
> [...]
> So it would be nice if one of you guys can try that 
> [...]
> The kernel-source rpm has a fully patched suse source tree, you can
> try to apply the patch there and rebuild a kernel.  

#  2004/12/17 09:18:41-08:00 roland@redhat.com 
#  [PATCH] fix bogus ECHILD return from wait* with zombie group leader

I tried to apply this patch to the SuSE kernel-source-2.6.8-24.10, but 
it failed. The reason is obvious: there are other patches necessary 
before applying this one.

The kernel/exit.c of SuSE 2.6.8-24.10 corresponds to bitkeeper rev 
1.155, and the above "bogus ECHILD return" fix is in bk rev 1.170 of 
kernel/exit.c, thus there are at least 15 additional fixes to be 
considered for backporting from 2.6.10 to SuSE's 2.6.8-24.10.

This is to much for me, as I am no kernel hacker. If no one picks up 
that job, then my only hope is that SuSE will finally move its SuSE 
9.2 forward to 2.6.10.

On Saturday 08 January 2005 13:15, Paolo Giarrusso wrote:
> The changelog does not mention our particular bug it but there is a
> good reason for not mentioning it, and it's related to TASK_TRACED
> which is *the* problem in 2.6.9 with UML.

  Armin.

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