Re: procfs pre-2.1.90-2 Oops, bug in proc_delete_dentry or proc_delete_inode or something , similar

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:25:08 +0000 (GMT)


On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I am able to reproduce the Oops in several manners. I simply insmod a
> module that create a bit complex proc directory (for example parport_pc),
> then I chdir to it and remove and insmod again the module while I joke
> with chdir and ls.

It's easier than that:

rm -rf /proc

does the trick just fine :-)

Matthew.

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