From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Possible hostfs uml kernel data corruption with missing host directory (fc6, 2.6.20-rc5-git3 on opteron)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:33:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702192233.42588.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702150542.12363.blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
On Thursday 15 February 2007 05:42, Blaisorblade wrote:
> On Thursday 15 February 2007 04:36, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > On Friday 26 January 2007 16:13, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:07:05AM -0500, William Stearns wrote:
> > > > After bisecting the difference between the two root filesystems,
> > > > the critical change was a line in /etc/fstab:
> > > >
> > > > none /mirrors hostfs defaults,/home/mirrors 0 0
> > > >
> > > > Woah.
> >
> > Ok, I think I have found it from code analisys (no testing done). Please
> > test the attached patch, since the bug is repeatable for you.
>
> I could reproduce the bug and since I had slab debugging enabled, I got a
> trace corresponding to what I said (with a 32bit UML). I'll test the patch
> tomorrow - I'm exhausting the battery - but I'm in the end confident it
> will work.
I've tested the patch and it fix the bug, but William, did you try it?
I like getting mails like "ok, it works for me, you can 'close' this bug".
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-26 9:07 [uml-devel] Possible hostfs uml kernel data corruption with missing host directory (fc6, 2.6.20-rc5-git3 on opteron) William Stearns
2007-01-26 15:13 ` Jeff Dike
2007-01-26 20:16 ` William Stearns
2007-02-15 3:36 ` Blaisorblade
2007-02-15 4:42 ` Blaisorblade
2007-02-19 21:33 ` Blaisorblade [this message]
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