From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: bruce.holzrichter@monster.com
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: my slab cache broken on sparc64
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 14:05:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020503.140507.89264790.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61DB42B180EAB34E9D28346C11535A781780F2@nocmail101.ma.tmpw.net>
From: "Holzrichter, Bruce" <bruce.holzrichter@monster.com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:18:55 -0500
I am trying to troubleshoot why in 2.5.13, (Though I also saw this in 2.5.7)
on my UltraSparc, why my slabcache is broken. Has anyone else seen this?
The technique used by the slabcache to verify to pointer
is %100 non-portable and totally wrong.
get_user() MUST be used only on "user pointers", it is being
used on a kernel pointer here.
It would work if the access was surrounded by:
old_fs = get_fs();
set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
... get_user(kernel_pointer) ...
set_fs (old_fs);
But it is not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-03 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-03 19:18 my slab cache broken on sparc64 Holzrichter, Bruce
2002-05-03 21:05 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-05-03 22:58 ` Andi Kleen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-04 1:54 Holzrichter, Bruce
2002-05-04 3:15 Holzrichter, Bruce
2002-05-04 3:07 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-04 9:46 ` Roman Zippel
2002-05-05 12:44 Holzrichter, Bruce
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