Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932807Ab0HNHYz (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:24:55 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:57434 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752364Ab0HNHYz (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:24:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:organization:message-id:references :in-reply-to:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=gpj3qIuu4tfH1GN9A8wYRSJqa1AQxln7E2T+H4zRbvpt3xOcdPPi8/dRZk/hQlGI8h rLbQ4XTrNxsw2oSQdAtQzXiyJdKQy47ThNg1oya9bwRQAzqRpAMtZDAEg6ugU9c5UNBY q5tytgGaFuPrcU9Mm8VapEoFFRnuk7MTqTlD0= From: Grant Coady To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [0/3] 2.6.27.52 stable review Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:24:36 +1000 Organization: scattered Message-ID: References: <20100813214704.GA18960@kroah.com> <20100813230712.GA1703@suse.de> <20100814001158.GA2849@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20100814001158.GA2849@suse.de> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2615 Lines: 71 On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:11:58 -0700, you wrote: >On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:47:08AM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> I scraped the patches out of the messages and edited Makefile :) >> >> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:07:12 -0700, you wrote: >> >> >On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 08:36:34AM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: >> >> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:47:04 -0700, you wrote: >> >> >> >> >NOTE! >> >> > >> >> >If I could get some people to please test this -rc release? It contains >> >> >a few core changes that I couldn't validate myself as I don't seem to >> >> >have a machine that will even boot the .27 kernel anymore after my move. >> >> Machine is running, but there's a lot of these in the dmesg: >> >> WARNING: at include/linux/security.h:1826 acct_stack_growth+0xe7/0xf0() >> Modules linked in: >> Pid: 320, comm: khelper Not tainted 2.6.27.52-rc1a #57 >> [] warn_on_slowpath+0x5f/0x90 >> [] __alloc_pages_internal+0x93/0x420 >> [] buffered_rmqueue+0x11d/0x210 >> [] allocate_slab+0x4a/0xd0 >> [] setup_object+0x29/0x30 >> [] new_slab+0xb4/0x130 >> [] __slab_alloc+0xac/0x120 >> [] acct_stack_growth+0xe7/0xf0 >> [] expand_stack+0x7a/0x90 >> [] do_anonymous_page+0x121/0x130 >> [] handle_mm_fault+0x1b8/0x1e0 >> [] get_user_pages+0xe4/0x270 >> [] get_arg_page+0x49/0xc0 >> [] copy_strings+0xdb/0x180 >> [] copy_strings_kernel+0x29/0x40 >> [] do_execve+0xde/0x1d0 >> [] sys_execve+0x2f/0x60 >> [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb >> [] ioapic_register_intr+0x10b/0x110 >> [] kernel_execve+0x1c/0x30 >> [] ____call_usermodehelper+0x5c/0xc0 >> [] ____call_usermodehelper+0x0/0xc0 >> [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x1c >> ======================= >> ---[ end trace 62e879f3daf4be6a ]--- > >I'm guessing that 2.6.27.51 didn't cause those warnings as well? Not in .51, the .51 dmesg is up now too: http://bugsplatter.id.au/kernel/boxen/deltree/dmesg-2.6.27.51a.gz > >That's a warning that current->mm is null. I don't know enough about >the mm subsystem to say if this is normal or not, and I don't at first >glance, see how this patch could have caused this to happen. > >Anyone else have an idea? > >thanks, > >greg k-h -- 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/