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From: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>
To: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <v.mayatskih@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: Fix OOPS in crash_kernel_shrink
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:54:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5maqleh.wl%vmayatsk@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BCDA46E.9030405@redhat.com>

At Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:56:14 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> 
> Vitaly Mayatskikh wrote:
> > Two "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" OOPSes kernel. Also
> > content of this file is invalid after first shrink to zero: it shows 1
> > instead of 0.
> > 
> > This patch fixes it.
> 
> Hmmm, I certainly did tests for 'echo 0 > kexec_crash_size' when I
> worked on this, but I didn't get any oops. Can you show me the full
> oops?

Do it twice. start == end condition will work over and over, and
kernel will try to release_resource() again (and that's causes OOPS).

This scenario is unlikely to happen often (root privs, valid
crashkernel= in cmdline, dump-capture kernel not loaded), I hit it
only by chance.

-- 
wbr, Vitaly

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-20 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-19 13:21 Fix OOPS in crash_kernel_shrink Vitaly Mayatskikh
2010-04-20 12:56 ` Cong Wang
2010-04-20 13:54   ` Vitaly Mayatskikh [this message]
2010-04-22  8:30     ` Cong Wang

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