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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Marcin Ro?ek <marcin.rozek@ios.edu.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:44:50 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915124449.GB2963@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414844C5.6080802@ios.edu.pl>

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:33:57PM +0200, Marcin Ro?ek wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >Its the third or fourth report like this I see, all of them with the 
> >grsecurity patch applied.
> >
> >Have you tried a stock 2.4.27?
> No.
> Is that bug serious? Should i move to clean 2.4.27?

Yes it is quite serious... the VM is trying to free a page with ->mapping 
set (probably a pagecache page) which is not valid thing to happen (thus the BUG).

You can move to v2.4.27 to confirm you see or do not see the problem there.

> Strange is that previously i've been running (for quite long time) Mandrake 
> 9.1 on the same machine with 2.4.27-grsec (but with enabled 
> CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PAX_MPROTECT) and i don't remember seeing such BUG...A

Search the archives for "grsecurity and 2.4.27" and take a look 
at the other reports.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-15 12:25 kernel BUG at page_alloc.c Marcin Rożek
2004-09-15 11:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-15 13:33   ` Marcin Rożek
2004-09-15 12:44     ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-09-17 11:02       ` Marcin Rożek
     [not found] <20020812002223.GE24456@louise.pinerecords.com>
2002-08-12  0:27 ` Studying MTD
2002-08-12  0:41 ` Studying MTD
2002-08-12  0:46   ` Tomas Szepe
     [not found] <20020812000523.15F1D88BC@oscar.casa.dyndns.org>
2002-08-12  0:19 ` Studying MTD
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-11 23:35 Studying MTD

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