From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: ivo.welch@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fanotify bug on gdb -- hard crash
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:14:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141226221444.GA13349@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPr7RtWpX_kYiJRRnPVSZrL-U2GqoV5aBPM_AF7xBzV99jzJuw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri 2014-12-26 22:45:38, ivo welch wrote:
> I am not a kernel developer, so forgive the intrusion.
Good bug reports are always welcome.
> I suspect I have found either a bug in gdb (less likely) or a bug in
> fanotify (more likely). it is replicable, and the code is almost
> unchanged from the example in the fanotify man page. to trigger it,
> all an su needs to do is to step through the program below with gdb
> 7.8.1 'n' command, and linux locks up the system pretty hard (reboot
Hard lockup -> this can't be gdb problem.
> required). I have confirmed the replicability of this issue on a
> clean arch 2014.12.01 3.17.6-1 system and on a clean ubuntu 14.10
> system, both VMs created just to check it. /iaw
Does it need root priviledges to trigger?
Best regards,
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-26 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-26 14:45 fanotify bug on gdb -- hard crash ivo welch
2014-12-26 18:40 ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2014-12-28 23:13 ` Eric Paris
[not found] ` <CAPr7RtWQ6bt4M8f-2-w0nbLvgpupb0kckE=VQDYbC8EXwiPDJg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-29 4:29 ` Eric Paris
2014-12-29 5:06 ` ivo welch
2014-12-31 0:21 ` Eric Paris
2014-12-26 22:14 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2014-12-26 23:48 ` ivo welch
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