From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [Bug #12505] 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:46:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20090204164623.GE25996@elte.hu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Justin Mattock Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Hiroshi Shimamoto , Justin Madru * Justin Mattock wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > > of recent regressions. > > > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > > from 2.6.28. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know > > (either way). > > > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505 > > Subject : 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load > > Submitter : Justin Madru > > Date : 2009-01-16 20:56 (20 days old) > > First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191 > > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123213941914274&w=4 > > Handled-By : Justin P. Mattock > > > > > > > > Well the hardest for this, was to reproduce > the error.(never did). I guess it can be taken > of if there was a patch for the fix, and the patch > made it into the main tree. but if this is a firefox > issue, then a report needs to be filed with them. > so overall my answer is "I don't know." > :^) the error is spurious because gcc randomly stomps on user register state so the effects can be rather random and unpredictable. The fix: 552b8aa: Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()" was included in -rc2 already, so please test latest -git whether you can see any such troubles. Ingo From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757303AbZBDQqp (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:46:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753226AbZBDQqc (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:46:32 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:42423 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753020AbZBDQqb (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:46:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:46:23 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Justin Mattock Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Hiroshi Shimamoto , Justin Madru Subject: Re: [Bug #12505] 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load Message-ID: <20090204164623.GE25996@elte.hu> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Justin Mattock wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report > > of recent regressions. > > > > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions > > from 2.6.28. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know > > (either way). > > > > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505 > > Subject : 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load > > Submitter : Justin Madru > > Date : 2009-01-16 20:56 (20 days old) > > First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191 > > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123213941914274&w=4 > > Handled-By : Justin P. Mattock > > > > > > > > Well the hardest for this, was to reproduce > the error.(never did). I guess it can be taken > of if there was a patch for the fix, and the patch > made it into the main tree. but if this is a firefox > issue, then a report needs to be filed with them. > so overall my answer is "I don't know." > :^) the error is spurious because gcc randomly stomps on user register state so the effects can be rather random and unpredictable. The fix: 552b8aa: Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()" was included in -rc2 already, so please test latest -git whether you can see any such troubles. Ingo