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

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Date:	Fri, 20 May 2011 13:19:13 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
Cc:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
	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)

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 18:24 +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> 2011/5/20 Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>:
> >

> Here in futex_wake() happens a NULL pointer dereference.
> Steve, any ideas?
> 

Yes, if this is from the bisect, and does not contain the two commits
that I've posted in another email. Without those fixes, the futex code
will error and return without doing the proper work and cause all sorts
of bugs.

-- Steve


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