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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@agile.tv>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernel crash
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 10:28:36 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <447A4034.2010802@agile.tv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1irnq6tzq.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>I have tried to reproduce this.  The circumstances weren't the most
>controlled but they did overlap with what you described and I haven't seen
>anything.
>  
>
What version of the kernel and patch-set did you test against?

Over the last month I've tried *EVERYTHING* I can lay my hands on and 
can still cause a crash VERY easily!

>So I am guessing that you are having memory corruption from some source.
>Either bad ram or a bad module.
>  
>
On my DELL 1850 dual-core dual-Xeon system I did have a flaky DIMM which 
cause a few correctable ECC errors, but that has been replaced and still 
the same.  My other test systems are (multiple) DELL 1425 dual-Xeon 
machines [2.8 or 3.0 GHz chips].
 

>I'm off on vacation for a week, so I won't be able to follow up.
>  
>
Have a good one...

>
>Eric
>  
>


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-29  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-26  0:43 PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernel crash Tony Griffiths
2006-05-28 15:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-29  0:28   ` Tony Griffiths [this message]
2006-05-31  6:50   ` Tony Griffiths

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