Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423081AbWLUUk0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:40:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423083AbWLUUk0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:40:26 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:38573 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423081AbWLUUkY (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:40:24 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:40:03 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds , Nick Piggin , andrei.popa@i-neo.ro, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Hugh Dickins , Florian Weimer , Marc Haber , Martin Michlmayr Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 Message-Id: <20061221124003.d19d4fe7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1166706200.32117.14.camel@twins> References: <1166314399.7018.6.camel@localhost> <20061217040620.91dac272.akpm@osdl.org> <1166362772.8593.2.camel@localhost> <20061217154026.219b294f.akpm@osdl.org> <1166460945.10372.84.camel@twins> <45876C65.7010301@yahoo.com.au> <45878BE8.8010700@yahoo.com.au> <4587B762.2030603@yahoo.com.au> <1166706200.32117.14.camel@twins> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 27 On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:03:20 +0100 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:43 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Btw, > > here's a totally new tangent on this: it's possible that user code is > > simply BUGGY. > > depmod: BADNESS: written outside isize 22183 akpm:/usr/src/module-init-tools-3.3-pre1> grep -r mmap . ./zlibsupport.c: map = mmap(0, *size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0); So presumably it's in a library. akpm:/usr/src/25> ldd /sbin/depmod linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x46afa000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4631d000) worrisome. - 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/