Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SYSVIPC - Fix the ipc structures initialization | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:06:34 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 07:10 +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Time is starting to press on this one. Is there something which we can > > revert which would fix this bug? > > > My previous analysis was bogus, let's start from scratch: > > 1) the initial oops report: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11796#c0 > > - lockdep is enabled, the oops is somewhere in __lock_acquire > - the instruction that oopses is
> For me, it reads like an uninitialized spinlock_t:
Yes, most (if not all) oopsen in either __lock_acquire or __lock_release are stomped on spinlocks, either use after free or otherwise.
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