Re: 2.3.28+zoned-H2 bug?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:24:23 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Russell King wrote:

> I've been able to get 2.3.28 with Ingo's zoned-2.3.28-H2 patch going on ARM,
> but unfortunately I keep on getting Oopses in do_fork, specifically in
> copy_fs.
>
> The oops is within the following code:
>
> tsk->fs->root = dget(current->fs->root);
>
> where the dentries count is incremented. The address seems to be the ASCII
> string 'linu'.
>
> Dumping out the contents of current->fs shows that it is valid before the
> kmalloc() but not after it. In fact, turning on poisoning in mm/slab.c
> changes the Oops address to 0x5a5a5a5a, the poison value.
>
> Has anyone else used Ingo's patch, and have they seen similar results?

no such reports at all (so far), it looks like it's unique to ARM.

-- mingo

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