Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161102AbVKYPEV (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:04:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161104AbVKYPEV (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:04:21 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:43937 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161102AbVKYPET (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:04:19 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:03:48 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: George Anzinger Cc: Oleg Nesterov , paulmck@us.ibm.com, Roland McGrath , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com, suzannew@cs.pdx.edu Subject: Re: Thread group exec race -> null pointer... HELP Message-ID: <20051125150348.GA14919@elte.hu> References: <20051105013650.GA17461@us.ibm.com> <436CDEAF.E236BC40@tv-sign.ru> <20051106010004.GB20178@us.ibm.com> <436E1401.920A83EE@tv-sign.ru> <437BC01D.60302@mvista.com> <43826FDC.8010401@mvista.com> <43832F1D.F56D1C00@tv-sign.ru> <4384D17C.4040902@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4384D17C.4040902@mvista.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=AWL autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 0.0 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 22 * George Anzinger wrote: > >This patch: > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113138286512847 > > > >was intended to fix exactly this problem (and the same test program was > >used to exploit the race and test the fix). > > > >So, it does not help? I can't reproduce the problem. > > Yes, it does fix it. Somehow I missed the posting of that patch. fyi, i've included the patch in -rt15. Ingo - 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/