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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filp_open() in 2.2.19 causes memory corruption
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:32:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010423163248.B1131@vger.timpanogas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001d01c0cc33$7e62daa0$5517fea9@local> <3942.988063428@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <3942.988063428@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:03:48PM +0100

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:03:48PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> manfred@colorfullife.com said:
> > Are you sure the trace is decoded correctly?
> 
> > > CPU:    0 
> > > EIP:    0010:[sys_mremap+31/884]  
> 
> Probably not. It looks like it was munged by klogd. Some distributions are 
> still shipping with klogd configured to destroy the original information on 
> the way to the log, without even making it do a sanity check that the 
> System.map it's using actually matches the current kernel.
> 
> Jeff, please disable the broken klogd symbol munging and reproduce it,
> running the oops through ksymoops manually. Ksymoops should have built-in 
> sanity checks on the System.map it tries to use.
> 
> Also, please make sure you report this as a serious bug with the vendor of 
> whatever distribution you're running on this box.
> 


David,

I will comply and repost the oops.

Jeff

> --
> dwmw2
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-23 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-23 20:24 filp_open() in 2.2.19 causes memory corruption Manfred Spraul
2001-04-23 20:44 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-23 22:03 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 22:32   ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
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     [not found]       ` <20010423163757.D1131@vger.timpanogas.org>
     [not found]         ` <4855.988065927@redhat.com>
     [not found]           ` <20010423163954.A1237@vger.timpanogas.org>
     [not found]             ` <4897.988066047@redhat.com>
2001-04-25 23:32               ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-27 11:50               ` David Woodhouse
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2001-04-23 18:04 Jeff V. Merkey

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