Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:20:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Serious bug in recent Linux kernels |
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi > > Anybody who knows about this one? > > Jes > ------- start of forwarded message ------- > From: Kars de Jong <jongk@cs.utwente.nl> > To: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> > Subject: Serious bug in recent Linux kernels > Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 02:33:12 +0100 > > Hi, > > There is a serious bug in recent kernels with the timeout of the poll() > system call. The calculation to turn the timeout value from milliseconds > into whatever schedule_timeout() expects is wrong. The following happened > when I read my mail with mutt. I use a development glibc (2.1.106) which > uses poll() when it is available in the kernel. As soon as I opened read a > mail message my screen got spammed with hundreds of lines saying: > > schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value f3333335 from 00024c0e
I just reported and fixed it ages ago. I don't know why my global fix not went into the kernel.
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