linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7

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Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:29:41 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alejandro Riveira Fern?ndez <ariveira@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>,
	"Michael B. Trausch" <mike@...usch.us>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:23:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alejandro Riveira Fern??ndez wrote:
> > 
> >  Here you go 
> > 
> >  [alex@...da:kernel/linux-2.6]$ git bisect bad                                   
> > 31168481c32c8a485e1003af9433124dede57f8d is first bad commit
> 
> Excellent. One last step - can you verify that just reverting this commit 
> makes your problems go away?

I would be _very_ surprised if it did; the only thing that could possibly
happen there is executing code from freed memory if the section changes
are fucked up and that definitely does not match the symptoms described.

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