Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261201AbVBGRUb (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:20:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261203AbVBGRUa (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:20:30 -0500 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:65453 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261201AbVBGRUI (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:20:08 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 From: Robert Love To: Peter Osterlund Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: References: <20050204103350.241a907a.akpm@osdl.org> <1107686024.30303.52.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:22:15 -0500 Message-Id: <1107796935.24154.14.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 28 On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:22 +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote: > > > > EIP is a strncpy_from_user+0x33/0x47 > > > > ... > > > > Call Trace: > > > > getname+0x69/0xa5 > > > > sys_open+0x12/0xc6 > > > > sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75 > > > > ... > > > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > I found the if I disable CONFIG_INOTIFY, the problem goes away. Weird. While we touch sys_open() with an inotify hook, we do so after the call to getname, and we don't touch getname() or strncpy_from_user() at all. I wonder if there is another bug and inotify is just affecting the timing? Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/