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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] __write_lock_failed() oops
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 01:42:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D77190C.F4562547@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020905080310.GF18800@holomorphy.com

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> After running 64 simultaneous tiobench 256's a few times,
> I get the following oops, which I've been seeing intermittently
> for a number of 2.5.x releases (since 2.5.x booted on NUMA-Q):
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0xc0106693 in __write_lock_failed () at semaphore.c:176
> 176     semaphore.c: No such file or directory.
>         in semaphore.c
> 
> for some reason, I'm unable to get a backtrace:
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xc0106693 in __write_lock_failed () at semaphore.c:176
> Reply contains invalid hex digit 36
> 

That's all the assembly hacks in the rwlock code not having proper
stack frames.  You may have to ksymoops it.

At a guess: use-after-free bug against an address_space.  You may
be able to catch it with slab poisoning.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-05  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-05  8:03 [BUG] __write_lock_failed() oops William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05  8:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-05  8:32   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05  8:45     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05  8:59       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05  9:08       ` William Lee Irwin III

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