From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261956AbTJJH2m (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:28:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262560AbTJJH2m (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:28:42 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:54485 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261956AbTJJH2l (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:28:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:28:38 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Taner Halicioglu Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test7 oops in proc_pid_stat Message-ID: <20031010072838.GA17401@suse.de> References: <20031009130409.GA740@suse.de> <200310092204.h99M4Ro28540@mail.osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200310092204.h99M4Ro28540@mail.osdl.org> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 09, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > Linux version 2.6.0-test7 (olaf@zert152) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 SMP Thu > > Oct 9 08:49:29 CEST 2003 > > > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > 0000003c > > Ok, this seems to be due to the move of the job control fields from > the task structure to the signal structure. > > That looks like a bad idea, and the best thing to do is likely to just > revert the whole thing. I have reverted these two patches and fixed the reject in sched.h, no oops since 9 hours. # 03/10/05 akpm@osdl.org[torvalds] 1.1451.4.16 # [PATCH] move job control fields from task_struct to # 03/10/05 akpm@osdl.org[torvalds] 1.1451.4.17 # [PATCH] fix "compat ioctl consolidation" for "move job -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG