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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] __write_lock_failed() oops
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 01:32:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020905083240.GC888@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D77190C.F4562547@zip.com.au>

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> After running 64 simultaneous tiobench 256's a few times,
>> I get the following oops, which I've been seeing intermittently
>> for a number of 2.5.x releases (since 2.5.x booted on NUMA-Q):
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> 0xc0106693 in __write_lock_failed () at semaphore.c:176
>> 176     semaphore.c: No such file or directory.
>>         in semaphore.c

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:42:52AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> That's all the assembly hacks in the rwlock code not having proper
> stack frames.  You may have to ksymoops it.
> At a guess: use-after-free bug against an address_space.  You may
> be able to catch it with slab poisoning.

(gdb) p/x $eax
$25 = 0xc0331ca0
(gdb) p &tasklist_lock
$27 = (rwlock_t *) 0xc0331ca0


Cheers,
Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-05  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-05  8:03 [BUG] __write_lock_failed() oops William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05  8:42 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05  8:32   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-09-05  8:45     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05  8:59       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05  9:08       ` William Lee Irwin III

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