From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750883AbVK2OEM (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:04:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751343AbVK2OEM (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:04:12 -0500 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.197]:56772 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750883AbVK2OEL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:04:11 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kvHeBwnvyE3dT2hCf1jxiil93NH3qiX/zzrMieIAtbuVH623k/++BCiBRhumVdv4Ao/g7cmc/GH9I6JSB3zFLeMrZFfB6y06PenSKn2NyZYbzMDodC2x+H6Ylu+ey3JwLabtr44fFxYj2FGVikpLqzrtaYulZqeVqk8TECaPe/U= Message-ID: <121a28810511290604m68c56398t@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:04:10 +0100 From: Grzegorz Nosek To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] race condition in procfs Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vserver@list.linux-vserver.org In-Reply-To: <121a28810511290525m1bdf12e0n@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <121a28810511282317j47a90f6t@mail.gmail.com> <20051129000916.6306da8b.akpm@osdl.org> <121a28810511290038h37067fecx@mail.gmail.com> <121a28810511290525m1bdf12e0n@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2005/11/29, Grzegorz Nosek : > > Oh well, I got another oops in the very same place with the patch > applied. So now I surrounded the check with > read_[un]lock(&tasklist_lock) and added a check to do_task_stat (both > now have a printk). If it builds, boots and doesn't crash, I'll post > the patch. Froze solid a minute after booting :( netconsole didn't log anything either. Back to the drawing board. Best regards, Grzegorz Nosek