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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: nelakurthi koteswararao <koteswararao18@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, regressions@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Futex crash in Normal 4.9 Kernel
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 14:27:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YREfHsGDx/Yows56@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGJbQde8vgDBknH7gevnRx5cxwjOvuNoU7jHDnj3fN+dJgt2uA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 05:52:17PM +0530, nelakurthi koteswararao wrote:
> Dear Greg,
> 
> Thank you for your reply. I noticed most of the futex changes between
> 4.9.233 to 4.9.279 is related to Priority Inheritance that comes in
> to use in the Real time kernel. But I am using the 4.9.232 Normal Kernel.

I do not know what a "4.9.232 Normal Kernel" is.

> That's the reason I posted futex crash to the mailing list for input.
> is the race between futex_wait() thread and futex_wake() threads leading to
> NULL pointer crash? any input in that direction?

Again, please try the latest 4.9.y kernel release, we do not support
older releases for obvious reasons.

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-09 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-09 11:14 Futex crash in Normal 4.9 Kernel nelakurthi koteswararao
2021-08-09 11:26 ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <CAGJbQde8vgDBknH7gevnRx5cxwjOvuNoU7jHDnj3fN+dJgt2uA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-08-09 12:27     ` Greg KH [this message]

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