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From: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@theshore.net>
To: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade_personal@yahoo.it>
Cc: uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] unable to unmount tmpfs problem lives on
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:24:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001e01c4e3ce$c873fff0$0201a8c0@hawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200412170115.15731.blaisorblade_personal@yahoo.it

> Well, this is yet undiagnosed, but definitely it's not a UML bug... you should
> certainly run a 2.6.8.1 based kernel...

That is unfortunate.

> There is some kind of security bug fixed in 2.6.9, but it was a littler one
> probably (an overflow when handling file position...).
>
> Do you remember when UML crashed and left the unkillable 'D' thread? That's a
> local DoS bug, and this one you're speaking about is a worse one... I and
> Bodo have complained about this one (not on LKML) and didn't get any answer
> yet...

I could try and get a response from LKML, but you would probably present the problem
better...

-Chris



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-17  0:05 [uml-devel] unable to unmount tmpfs problem lives on Christopher S. Aker
     [not found] ` <200412170115.15731.blaisorblade_personal@yahoo.it>
2004-12-17  0:24   ` Christopher S. Aker [this message]
2004-12-17  0:30     ` Paolo Giarrusso
2004-12-17  3:08       ` Christopher S. Aker

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