Re: GGI and cli/sti in X
Krzysztof G. Baranowski (kgb@manjak.knm.org.pl)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:23:49 +0100 (CET)
While testing the million monkey theory, Alan Cox wrote:
>The "Ugh" is logging the fact someone attempted to handle a page fault while
>having interrupts disabled. This is an extremely bad thing. There are two causes
>1. Incorrect kernel code (I think most of these are now dead)
There is a bug in drivers/char/esp.c. rs_write() does copy_from_user()
with interrupts disabled.
Regards,
Kris
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