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From: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: BUG in filp_close() (was: Re: 2.6.19-rc1-mm1)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:14:35 -0700
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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 15:07, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> Still don't know exactly what's going on here.  In case it helps, this
> is the call to dup2() from strace output:
>
> 1419  open("/dev/null", O_RDWR)         = 7
> 1419  getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, {rlim_cur=1024, rlim_max=1024}) = 0
> 1419  dup2(7, 524)                      = 524
> 1419  dup2(7, 525 <unfinished ...>

Thanks for the data point.

Hmmm... looks as if the likely sequence of events was:
create embedded fdtable
extend fdtable, allocate external data to handle fd = 524
try to extend fdtable again, crash.

Seems as if alloc_fdtable() or copy_fdtable() are to blame, but the code logic 
seems to be identical. Hmmmm.

-- Vadim Lobanov

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