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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: Oops when using growisofs
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:42:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806250342.08575.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806242039.18755.mb@bu3sch.de>

On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
> >   I have seen one more report of this Oops for SLES10 kernel and also in that
> > case an IO error happened so probably that is a trigger... But so far I
> > don't get the details.
> 
> Yeah the IO error is the trigger.
> I noticed that it had obvious troubles accessing the DVD that was in the drive.
> It sweeped over it for several seconds, then hung the system for 2 or 3 seconds
> and then oopsed. But after that everything continued to work as usual.
> (Except kded of course)

So maybe a use-after-free bug in the I/O error handling caused an inode to
be overwritten and then passed to an I/O function that used an invalid
inode->i_blkbits?

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-25  1:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-22 16:18 Oops when using growisofs Michael Buesch
2008-06-22 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-22 21:31   ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-06-22 22:09     ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-22 22:05   ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-22 22:28     ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-23  6:34       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-23  6:59         ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-24 17:28         ` Jan Kara
2008-06-24 18:39           ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-25  1:42             ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2008-06-25  9:37             ` Jan Kara
2008-06-25  9:46               ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-26 17:05                 ` Jan Kara
2008-06-26 18:11                   ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-26 18:21                     ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-26 18:36                       ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-26 18:39                         ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-26 18:41                           ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-29 19:39                         ` Michael Buesch
2008-07-09 18:46                         ` Jan Kara
2008-07-22  9:25                         ` Andrew Morton

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