Oops. Forgot to include a patch.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Andris Pavenis wrote:
>
> I tried to localize the problem more exactly in slightly different way:
> grepped net subdirectory for TASK_RUNNING and inserted checks where
> needed (not so much places to change, of course only files that are
> compiled at all)
>
> Result:
> I got first failures of test at end of procedure tcp_recvmsg() (and of
> course later as current->state is changed).
>
> Only difference I saw is that other procedures under linux/net directory which
> changes current->state at first sets
> current->state = TASK_RUNNING
> and only after that calls remove_waut_queue().
>
> tcp_recvmsg() does this in an opposite way. (and it was only place where I
> found corruption). So maybe there could be some race condition and sometime task
> state may become corrupted
>
> I'll try to change order and continue testing.
>
> Andris
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