On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 09:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > [patch] Race condition in usermodehelper.
>
> You mean three days work?
Unfortunately yes. You really have to hit the machine hard to provoke
this oops. All I had to work with was a dump that showed me the content
of the memory after it crashed.
> If so, I owe you a big apology, because an identical patch has been in -mm
> for over a month. I guess I didn't appreciate its significance.
Well, I could have looked in -mm after the first suspicion that there is
something wrong with the kernel module loader. It would have saved me 2
of the 3 days.. will remember for the next debug session.
> Shall expedite.
Please do.
--
blue skies,
Martin.
Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
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