linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.23.1: oops in diskstats

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:32:35 +0100
From:	Max Kellermann <max@...mpel.org>
To:	Rick Lindsley <ricklind@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23.1: oops in diskstats_show()

On 2008/01/29 23:22, Rick Lindsley <ricklind@...ibm.com> wrote:
>     Right before the crash, I was torturing cryptsetup to experiment with
>     encryption - I created and deleted device mapper objects in a loop.
> 
> Creating and deleting block devices ... yeah, this is probably key to
> the problem. Can you provide the command or, more likely, script you
> were using to do this?

Hi Rick,

it was a very simple script, just the following two commands over and
over, nothing more:

  "cryptsetup create foo /dev/sdc6",
  "cryptsetup remove foo"

This is my workstation, I have been working at the same time (emacs,
gcc, ...), nothing special.

Max

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