Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:22:44 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Reduce _NSIG from 128 to 127 to avoid BUG_ON |
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On 06/14, James Hogan wrote: > > However do_group_exit() checks for the core dump bit (0x80) in the exit > code which matches in this particular case and the kernel panics: > > BUG_ON(exit_code & 0x80); /* core dumps don't get here */ > > Lets avoid this by changing the ABI by reducing the number of signals to > 127 (so that the maximum signal number is 127).
Agreed.
Of course I can't ack the change in arch/mips, but to me this looks like a best solution.
Oleg.
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