From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4BD5C8C4.3040207@domain.hid> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:09:24 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4BD54515.9010101@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <4BD54515.9010101@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH 00/23] [git pull] procfs overflow fixes and seq_file conversions List-Id: Xenomai life and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: xenomai-core Jan Kiszka wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> The following changes since commit 113ea4d56e8b215cb56ae7673013163ea5a5987d: >> Gilles Chanteperdrix (1): >> switchtest: increase stack sizes >> >> are available in the git repository at: >> >> git://git.xenomai.org/xenomai-jki.git queues/proc >> >> This series fixes some of the potential (but when they happen fatal) >> overflows in our procfs outputs. Specifically, it fixes all issues in >> RTDM (one of them hit us in the field) and the recently reported >> overflow in /proc/xenomai/heap. Moreover, Wolfgang started the lengthy >> conversion of the registry by introducing a new seq_file-based interface >> and already moving the native skin over. >> >> The future belongs to seq_file, so some of the patches are strictly >> spoken not yet required. But we better start this effort before the last >> legacy interface user was converted and the old interface is suddenly >> dropped from the kernel. This may not be that far away. A patch of mine >> to improve error reporting of the old interface was rejected with >> "->read_proc is going to be removed, so there is no point." > > Did you already have a chance to look into this series? Not yet, that is a big series. With a high potential for kernel crashes, memory leaks and other things like that. I am trying to find a way to test it. Maybe we can try and run it with kmemcheck? -- Gilles.