Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.2 - unable to handle kernel paging request - still accessing freed memory

Pekka Enberg
2007-03-16T10:25:48Z

Hi Chris,

On 3/16/07, Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com> wrote:
> That would take ages - the only reason I kept on plugging away with winecfg last night
> was because I was fairly certain the kernel was going to "oops" eventually (which it did).
> But when exactly would I be able to declare a kernel "good" during a "git bisect"?

Yeah, if you can't reproduce at will, git bisect is very impractical.
Please try out the following patch to see if we catch a reference
counting underflow:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/detect-atomic-counter-underflows.patch