From: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade_personal@yahoo.it>
To: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@theshore.net>
Cc: uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] unable to unmount tmpfs problem lives on
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:30:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412170130.13717.blaisorblade_personal@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001e01c4e3ce$c873fff0$0201a8c0@hawk>
On Friday 17 December 2004 01:24, Christopher S. Aker wrote:
> > 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...
I've been away from the net one week, and I've posted the message before it.
Now, I *do* want to wait before posting to LKML... I'll maybe complain
louder. I'll post to LKML as a last resort, if they show not enough care of
the problem, to urge them to fix it.
--
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade
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2004-12-17 0:05 [uml-devel] unable to unmount tmpfs problem lives on Christopher S. Aker
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2004-12-17 0:24 ` Christopher S. Aker
2004-12-17 0:30 ` Paolo Giarrusso [this message]
2004-12-17 3:08 ` Christopher S. Aker
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