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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:22:03 -0600
From: Bryan Andersen <bryan@bogonomicon.net>
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To: Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>
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Subject: Re: [OOPS] linux-2.4.21-pre3-ac4 @ free_pages_ok()
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Actually a patch is already out there.

From: hugh@veritas.com
Subject: [PATCH] 2.4.21-pre3-ac oops


--- 2.4.21-pre3-ac4/kernel/fork.c	Mon Jan 13 18:56:12 2003
+++ linux/kernel/fork.c	Sun Jan 19 13:39:37 2003
@@ -688,6 +688,8 @@
  	p->lock_depth = -1;		/* -1 = no lock */
  	p->start_time = jiffies;

+ 
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->local_pages);
+
  	retval = -ENOMEM;
  	/* copy all the process information */
  	if (copy_files(clone_flags, p))


-- Bryan

Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> I've seen this oops report before, but since nobody's posted a fix for it or
> anything, I figured I'll post the one I saw. I got a series of two oopses after
> untarring a 200MB tarfile. (The system has 512MB of memory and was recently
> booted into 2.4.21-pre3-ac4).  Here they are, plus boot-dmesg at the bottom.

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