Re: [PATCH] -o intr mount option prevents core dumps on 2.4 kernel

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Trond Myklebust wrote:

>to den 13.01.2005 Klokka 16:37 (-0500) skreiv Steve Dickson:
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>>after further review.... it seems the reason your patch works on a 
>>2.4.28 kernel, is
>>because signalled() never returns true, even when the process is sent 
>>the SIGSEGV signal. Why signalled() never returns true, I don't know.... 
>>but the
>>reason your patch did not work on a RHEL3 kernel is because signalled() 
>>does
>>return true and calls to recalc_sigpending() do not reset that pending 
>>signal....
>>which seems to be a bug in the NTPL-related code.... code that is not in the
>>2.4.28 kernel....
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>recalc_sigpending() failing to honour the sigmask sounds like a pretty major bug! 
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Well it turns it was a bug in the kernel signaling code which was causing
this issue.... which means there are no changes needed to the NFS code,
which is always a good thing... :)

See bz 132162 if interested....

steved.





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