From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:53:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Fault 26? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Dan" = Dan Pop writes: Dan> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> David Mosberger (davidm@hpl.hp.com) said: > Bill> What is fault >> type 26? I'm getting a few of these recently. > > It's the "NaT >> consumption fault". Either buggy code is trying to eat > a NaT >> value or something else goes wrong and a NaT value is created > >> when it shouldn't be. >> >> It's happening in strcpy(), of all places, with two seemingly valid >> arguments. Dan> Here's a patch that should fix it. The bug was in a recovery Dan> code that was highly unlikely to be ever executed, hence it Dan> passed unnoticed for so long :-) Great I have applied this to my tree and asked Ulrich to apply it to the official tree. Jes