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| author |   Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> | 2006-03-31 17:58:46 +0400 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-31 12:25:46 -0800 |
| commit | 428622986858aebddc32d022af65e88b9d2ea8bb (patch) | |
| tree | 888b968f53e55d81386836ae3f43f46cea4ad6ce /Documentation | |
| parent | [PATCH] mutex: some cleanups (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-428622986858aebddc32d022af65e88b9d2ea8bb.tar.xz linux-dev-428622986858aebddc32d022af65e88b9d2ea8bb.zip | |
[PATCH] wrong error path in dup_fd() leading to oopses in RCU
Wrong error path in dup_fd() - it should return NULL on error,
not an address of already freed memory :/
Triggered by OpenVZ stress test suite.
What is interesting is that it was causing different oopses in RCU like
below:
Call Trace:
[<c013492c>] rcu_do_batch+0x2c/0x80
[<c0134bdd>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x3d/0x70
[<c0126cf3>] tasklet_action+0x73/0xe0
[<c01269aa>] __do_softirq+0x10a/0x130
[<c01058ff>] do_softirq+0x4f/0x60
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[<c0113817>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x77/0x110
[<c0103b54>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1c/0x24
Code: Bad EIP value.
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Signed-Off-By: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-Off-By: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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