Re: [Bug #12505] 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load

Justin Mattock
2009-02-05T01:37:57Z

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Justin Mattock wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>> >
>> > * Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>> >> > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
>> >> > of recent regressions.
>> >> >
>> >> > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
>> >> > from 2.6.28. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
>> >> > (either way).
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505
>> >> > Subject : 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load
>> >> > Submitter : Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>
>> >> > Date : 2009-01-16 20:56 (20 days old)
>> >> > First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191
>> >> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123213941914274&w=4
>> >> > Handled-By : Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Well the hardest for this, was to reproduce
>> >> the error.(never did). I guess it can be taken
>> >> of if there was a patch for the fix, and the patch
>> >> made it into the main tree. but if this is a firefox
>> >> issue, then a report needs to be filed with them.
>> >> so overall my answer is "I don't know."
>> >> :^)
>> >
>> > the error is spurious because gcc randomly stomps on user register state so
>> > the effects can be rather random and unpredictable.
>> >
>> > The fix:
>> >
>> > 552b8aa: Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn()"
>> >
>> > was included in -rc2 already, so please test latest -git whether you can see
>> > any such troubles.
>> >
>> > Ingo
>> >
>>
>> Sure I'll test it.
>> I'm just in the process of compiling libc.
>> which looks like I'll be here for a while.
>
> I've closed the bug as hopefully fixed.
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>

Cool,

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Justin P. Mattock