here's a new crash related to security changes - a boot lockup on a testbox: Pid: 5, comm: events/0 Tainted: G W (2.6.31-tip-02301-g1c11bd7-dirty #13102) System Product Name EIP: 0060:[] EFLAGS: 00000046 CPU: 0 EIP is at trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x30/0x9a EAX: 00000002 EBX: f70431c0 ECX: c18c8e58 EDX: c10138ce ESI: c10138ce EDI: 00000002 EBP: f7051ddc ESP: f7051dd4 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 CR0: 8005003b CR2: b745e530 CR3: 3618f000 CR4: 000006d0 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: c210fa6c DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 Call Trace: [] trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd [] default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0xd2/0xe3 [] default_send_IPI_all+0x27/0x67 [] arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace+0x30/0x54 [] __rcu_pending+0x49/0x113 [] rcu_check_callbacks+0x1d/0x9c [] update_process_times+0x29/0x3e [] tick_periodic+0x6a/0x6c [] tick_handle_periodic+0x14/0x6a [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x63/0x73 [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2f/0x40 [] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3d/0x41 [] __queue_work+0x2b/0x30 [] queue_work_on+0x2c/0x36 [] queue_work+0x13/0x15 [] schedule_work+0x14/0x16 [] key_schedule_gc+0x28/0x4e [] key_garbage_collector+0x167/0x180 [] run_workqueue+0xfb/0x1c4 [] ? run_workqueue+0xdc/0x1c4 [] ? key_garbage_collector+0x0/0x180 [] worker_thread+0x79/0x85 [] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38 [] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x85 [] kthread+0x65/0x6a [] ? kthread+0x0/0x6a [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 Pid: 5, comm: events/0 Tainted: G W 2.6.31-tip-02301-g1c11bd7-dirty #13102 config and bootlog attached. Ingo