Re: PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernelcrash

[Tony Griffiths]

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
>  

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