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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	adobriyan@gmail.com, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	keescook@chromium.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	matthltc@us.ibm.com, tj@kernel.org, xemul@parallels.com
Subject: Re: + mm-exec-rename-mm-exe_file-to-mm-exe_path.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 00:37:52 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307203752.GB6191@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120307195104.GA5071@redhat.com>

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 08:51:04PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
...
> 
> > OOPs. Sorry for false alarm, Oleg!
> 
> No, thanks for the report and analysis.
> 
> Indeed, the patch is deadly wrong. Somehow I missed that ->f_path
> is not the pointer! So set_mm_exe_path(&bprm->file->f_path) is
> is obvioulsy wrong. I didn't bother to think about "&" think call
> needs.
> 

OK. So it is not a false alarm as I thought after
trying to write a call trace, good to know ;)

Anyway, this problem is hard to repeat and I have
no idea how I managed to hit it in first place.
It was indeed "easily" until I rebooted the test
machine.

	Cyrill

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20120306231325.D4B26A0395@akpm.mtv.corp.google.com>
     [not found] ` <20120307162630.GG20558@moon>
2012-03-07 17:41   ` + mm-exec-rename-mm-exe_file-to-mm-exe_path.patch added to -mm tree Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-07 19:34     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-07 19:51       ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-07 20:37         ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]

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