linux-kernel - Re: possible BUG while doing gpg --gen-key

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Message-Id: <20070905095802.e21c507e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 5 Sep 2007 09:58:02 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bunk@...nel.org, mpm@...enic.com,
	mb@...sch.de
Subject: Re: possible BUG while doing gpg --gen-key

> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:49:39 +0200 Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:55:20 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:57:17 +0200 Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl> wrote:
> >>> Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> >>>> Now it works:
> >>> Stranger even:
> >>>
> >>> With audio-entropyd, rngd active and the netdev-random patch working I
> >>> cannot reproduce the crash. Even after a fresh boot.
> >> It would really help if your oops stack trace wasn't truncated.  Can you
> >> see if you can generate a complete one using a recent kernel?  Enabling
> >> CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and disabling CONFIG_4K_STACKS might help in this.
> >>
> > 
> > So... what's happening here?  Did the trail go cold?
> 
> Well, I just rebooted the box for an other problem (see
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8377 for details)

erp, the bug report from hell #2.

> and did a
> fresh try:
> 
>  strace gpg --gen-key 2> ~/gpg.txt
> 
> Oddly enough the action completes successfully. This is with both
> audio-entropyd and rngd running and netdev-random patch in the kernel.
> The very same thing triggered the bug without problem before trying with
> the mentioned deamons stopped.
> Now even doing rm -rf .gnupg/ does not help in reproducing.
> 
> So yes, all is OK, and no, I don't know why.

oh well, thanks.  If there's really a bug in there then someone will
reliably hit it one day.  Thanks for following up.

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