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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:02:20 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	lepton <ytht.net@...il.com>
Cc:	lkm <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.22.6 user-mode linux: use address instead of value as argument in os_free_irq_by_cb

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:39:55PM +0800, lepton wrote:
>   There is a bug in os_free_irq_by_cb, when the first element
>   of active_fds list  is free, the value of active_fds is not
>   updated, just value in stack is updated.

Man, that sucks.

Nice spotting.

> 
>   The intresting thing is that without this patch, a poweroff
>   in user mode linux guest will halt the host linux system.It
>   seems that after the tracing thread is dead, the syscall to
>   sys_reboot of the traced thread is executed by host. I don't
>   know if it is another bug.

I would say that you shouldn't be running UMLs as root.  However, a
sys_reboot shouldn't escape being ptraced either.  This is a bug, but
I don't see any connection between it and ptrace missing a final
system call.

				Jeff

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