linux-kernel - Re: kernel 2.6.39 (user mode linux) crashes (2.6.38 works fine)

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Date:	Thu, 19 May 2011 22:18:16 +0200
From:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
To:	"richard -rw- weinberger" <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.39 (user mode linux) crashes (2.6.38 works fine)


richard -rw- weinberger wrote at 19:00:35
> Can you bisect the issue?

tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux-2.6 $ git bisect bad
2e12978a9f7a7abd54e8eb9ce70a7718767b8b2c is the first bad commit
commit 2e12978a9f7a7abd54e8eb9ce70a7718767b8b2c
Author: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 22 14:18:50 2010 +0800

    futex,plist: Pass the real head of the priority list to plist_del()
    
    Some plist_del()s in kernel/futex.c are passed a faked head of the
    priority list.
    
    It does not fail because the current code does not require the real head
    in plist_del(). The current code of plist_del() just uses the head for 
checking,
    so it will not cause a bad result even when we use a faked head.
    
    But it is undocumented usage:
    
    /**
     * plist_del - Remove a @node from plist.
     *
     * @node:   &struct plist_node pointer - entry to be removed
     * @head:   &struct plist_head pointer - list head
     */
    
    The document says that the @head is the "list head" head of the priority 
list.
    
    In futex code, several places use "plist_del(&q->list, &q->list.plist);",
    they pass a fake head. We need to fix them all.
    
    Thanks to Darren Hart for many suggestions.
    
    Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by:  Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
    LKML-Reference: <4D11984A.5030203@...fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

:040000 040000 78d47de377f8da1c131007a17ca915fbd13f7ff6 
ffac93205aaf22fda0667d6395c8da7c7bf692e4 M      kernel

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