Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755805Ab0BJTyW (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:54:22 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f220.google.com ([209.85.220.220]:54055 "EHLO mail-fx0-f220.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755389Ab0BJTyV (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:54:21 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=pWHjJO3FRoYBI4fwhmOMMWydpWPRIX+AOhMpJB6adK3ZfsDgS9wsaljBGBxHQC1TXL f9kzfn8vZ58AWM39b9fxkq9/GFHgjVMuoiBdIjBgH2ruaPgr9fDO2zx8GkqOmrjVGrXg UgLFw6gPmKbVudeq1T2Ym+1Op5FNiU0EtbSxk= Message-ID: <4B730EE3.4080405@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:54:11 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; cs-CZ; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 SUSE/3.0.1-9.1 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Kay Sievers , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: oops in uevent_helper [was: mmotm 2010-01-13-12-17 uploaded] References: <201001132042.o0DKgaSR027272@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <4B50C2FA.4020100@gmail.com> <4B50FC78.9010107@gmail.com> <20100122155237.e93a1c55.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100122155237.e93a1c55.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1006 Lines: 31 On 01/23/2010 12:52 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:38:32 +0100 > Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> (fixed subject) >> >> On 01/15/2010 08:33 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: >>> On 01/13/2010 09:17 PM, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: >>>> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-01-13-12-17 has been uploaded to >>> >>> Hi, it crashes on my machine while booting up. It is a regression >>> against 2010-01-06-14-34. Doesn't it ring a bell by a chance? >> >> Well, memcpying to something like this: >> char *uevent_helper = CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH; >> doesn't sound like a good idea :). >> >> And it's racy with sysctl path anyway. >> >> Looks like added by: >> sysctl-convert-hotplug-helper-string-to-proc_rcu_string.patch Ping Andi. -- js -- 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/