From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Meelis Roos Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.14: aic7xxx broken with blktool Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:17:03 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: References: <20051028040227.37dfef86.akpm@osdl.org> <1130512908.3328.8.camel@mulgrave> <4362C5D1.80308@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: Received: from math.ut.ee ([193.40.36.2]:22914 "EHLO math.ut.ee") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750831AbVJ2KR3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:17:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4362C5D1.80308@torque.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Douglas Gilbert Cc: James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org >> But blktool outputs memory fragments that seems to come from other >> processes. I saw string "bash", "lled with unallocated bl" and other >> strings that do not appear in blktools image. Without further >> investigation it seems that in case of the error, soma data ise leaked >> from kernel to the buggy program in userspace (blktool in this case). Meanwhile I have identified that "lled ..." message is contained in glibc. Don't know about "bash" but it might have come from environment or other places since it's my login shell. So there need not be a kernel leak. -- Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)