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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Race condition in usermodehelper.
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:08:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158340136.23993.25.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060915092600.3046c511.akpm@osdl.org>

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 09:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > [patch] Race condition in usermodehelper.
>
> You mean three days work?

Unfortunately yes. You really have to hit the machine hard to provoke
this oops. All I had to work with was a dump that showed me the content
of the memory after it crashed.

> If so, I owe you a big apology, because an identical patch has been in -mm
> for over a month.  I guess I didn't appreciate its significance.

Well, I could have looked in -mm after the first suspicion that there is
something wrong with the kernel module loader. It would have saved me 2
of the 3 days.. will remember for the next debug session.

> Shall expedite.

Please do.

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-15 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-15 10:46 [patch] Race condition in usermodehelper Martin Schwidefsky
2006-09-15 16:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-15 17:08   ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2006-09-15 19:52     ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-22  0:34 ` Adrian Bunk

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