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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@timpanogas.org
Subject: Re: filp_open() in 2.2.19 causes memory corruption
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:50:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5157.988372245@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010425173210.A13124@vger.timpanogas.org>
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jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org said:
> I've gotten to the bottom of this problem, and you are correct that
> klog  is trashing the messages file for the oops.

Oh dear. That's quite a serious bug in klogd. It should never destroy the
original information, _especially_ if the System.map it's looking at
blatantly doesn't match /proc/ksyms.

Have you reported it to your distribution vendor yet?

--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-27 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-23 20:24 filp_open() in 2.2.19 causes memory corruption Manfred Spraul
2001-04-23 20:44 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-23 22:03 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-23 22:32   ` Jeff V. Merkey
     [not found]     ` <4750.988065680@redhat.com>
     [not found]       ` <20010423163757.D1131@vger.timpanogas.org>
     [not found]         ` <4855.988065927@redhat.com>
     [not found]           ` <20010423163954.A1237@vger.timpanogas.org>
     [not found]             ` <4897.988066047@redhat.com>
2001-04-25 23:32               ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-27 11:50               ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2001-04-23 18:04 Jeff V. Merkey

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