My proftpd blew up on an uninitialized spinlock with 2.3.30.
eip: c012662c [somewhere in sys_capget()]
kernel BUG at /usr/src/kernel-source-2.3.30/include/asm/spinlock.h:78!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 1
EIP: 0010:[<c012665b>]
(...)
Here's the patch:
--- kernel/capability.c.orig Wed Dec 8 02:29:31 1999
+++ kernel/capability.c Wed Dec 8 02:29:50 1999
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
/* Note: never hold tasklist_lock while spinning for this one */
-spinlock_t task_capability_lock;
+spinlock_t task_capability_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
/*
* For sys_getproccap() and sys_setproccap(), any of the three
Regards,
Daniel.
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