Re: [uml-devel] /dev/random problems .. or FP registers corruption?!

[Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org>]

Hi,

Well, I am now puzzled quite a bit more. Another problem
on this UML box is that if I do tail -f on some file,
I ocassionally get an assertion:

tail: xnanosleep.c:67: xnanosleep: Assertion `0 <= seconds' failed.

This seems to happen more often (or at all) when I am
doing something using the openssl - tail -f on an apache
access log runs fine when I am doing http accesses
and fails quite repeatedly when I am doing https
or starting/terminating new SSL connection from/to the box.

I also have a few strace-s from the failing sshd,
where I can't really understand how the code got there.

These two have one thing in common - a double variable
that got initialized long ago and at the time of the
problem it looks like it mysteriously changed value:
"entropy" in the case of openssl and "sleep_interval"
in tail.

Am I seeing ghosts? Anyone got other mysterious
problems with current UML kernel? Could it be that
some state-saving method is corrupting fp registers
or something like that? Was there some change in the
UML / vanilla kernel recently?

To the openssl-ers: I am starting to think that openssl
is fine here and that the problem is indeed in the
UML kernel.


Regards
-- 
                                  Stano

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