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SubjectRe: OOPS on bringing down ppp

Nope that didn't help. I'm using gcc 2.95.2, didn't think of it before
since it has never caused me any problems. I'll get around to trying
2.91.66 at some point.

A quick aside, anyone know of a problem with the list, I seem to be being
cut off at random intervals :)

Mark

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 12:28:44 Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mark Ellis wrote:
> >
> > Hi all, consistently getting the following when pppd is terminated.
>
> When pppd downs the ppp0 device, unregister_netdevice() is
> trying to run /sbin/hotplug in a new kernel thread. That
> thread's `files' structure is copied from pppd, but it is
> NULL. Presumably pppd's files pointer was also NULL.
>
> Try this:
>
> --- linux-2.4.0-test11-ac2/kernel/kmod.c Tue Nov 21 20:11:21 2000
> +++ linux-akpm/kernel/kmod.c Fri Nov 24 23:03:34 2000
> @@ -99,8 +99,10 @@
> flush_signal_handlers(current);
> spin_unlock_irq(&current->sigmask_lock);
>
> - for (i = 0; i < current->files->max_fds; i++ ) {
> - if (current->files->fd[i]) close(i);
> + if (current->files) {
> + for (i = 0; i < current->files->max_fds; i++ ) {
> + if (current->files->fd[i]) close(i);
> + }
> }
>
> /* Drop the "current user" thing */
>
>
> Not my area, but I don't think exec_usermodehelper() should assume
> that current->files is always valid.
>
> Al, is this correct? If so, does daemonize() also need this test?
> If not, then how did this thread get (current->files == NULL)?
>

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