From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261825AbTLAIA2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 03:00:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262052AbTLAIA2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 03:00:28 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:43720 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261825AbTLAIA0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2003 03:00:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:00:20 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Andries Brouwer Cc: James W McMechan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Oops with tmpfs on both 2.4.22 & 2.6.0-test11 Message-ID: <20031201080020.GR8039@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Andries Brouwer , James W McMechan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031130.131750.-1591395.3.mcmechanjw@juno.com> <20031201012126.GN8039@holomorphy.com> <20031201075824.GA6068@win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031201075824.GA6068@win.tue.nl> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:21:26PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> This is significantly different in nature from the 2.4 oops, since >> 2.4 hit NULL and this pointer is total garbage. >> Either it's a double bitflip or even worse is afoot. On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:58:24AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > This oops is completely understood. I was going to write to you > yesterday evening, but then saw that Oleg Drokin already had > written. Didnt you see his mail? I'm sorry if my mail came out after Oleg's reply; I at least started writing it before his arrived on my system. -- wli