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Message-ID: <51EBC285.2030104@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:14:13 +0200
From: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
CC: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
"user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net"
<user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: fuzzying a user mode linux image often core dumps with
On 07/21/2013 03:03 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 05:07:19PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
>> I do run the fuzzer trinity within a 32 bit user mode linux.
>> With latest git tree I do often get a core dump like the one attached.
>>
>> Although it is the nature of trinity to corrupt the kernel /me wonders why it happens nearly alway
>> at the same place. That's why I decided to just report it here.
>
> Thanks, this is a known problem for which the fix is can be found here:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/260250/
>
Ah - so no bisecting necessary.
> I hope to get this fixed before -rc2 is released; the only question at
> the moment is whether the fix is going to go to Linus via the ext4
> tree or the VFS tree....
yep - Linus had it now in its tree-.
BTW that issue seems to be the reason for a lot of erratically crashes
of an UML while fuzzy tested.
--
MfG/Sincerely
Toralf Förster
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