From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:51:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:51:23 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:26362 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:51:02 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <20010425173210.A13124@vger.timpanogas.org> In-Reply-To: <20010425173210.A13124@vger.timpanogas.org> <20010423163757.D1131@vger.timpanogas.org> <20010423163248.B1131@vger.timpanogas.org> <001d01c0cc33$7e62daa0$5517fea9@local> <3942.988063428@redhat.com> <20010423163248.B1131@vger.timpanogas.org> <4750.988065680@redhat.com> <20010423163757.D1131@vger.timpanogas.org> <4855.988065927@redhat.com> <20010423163954.A1237@vger.timpanogas.org> <4897.988066047@redhat.com> To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@timpanogas.org Subject: Re: filp_open() in 2.2.19 causes memory corruption Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:50:45 +0100 Message-ID: <5157.988372245@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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