Re: Announce: kdb v4.4 is available for kernel 2.6.15

From: Jeff V. Merkey
Date: Wed Jan 04 2006 - 10:31:41 EST


Keith,

I noticed that during page faults, the OOPS handler is not getting
called when the kernel crashes in
filp_open() -- the notifier chain does not return for some reason. I
also noticed that when this happens, if you the section in /arch/i386/kernel/traps.c in function die() prior to the busting of
spinlocks, it will work (sortof work). To reproduce this error, call filp_open with a text string complied in the kernel. I can reproduce on 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 Fedora Kernels. Also noticed that when Kprobes is enabled, the debugger page faults during a page fault exeception. Seems related to the notifier chain.

If you fixed this already, disregard this notice.

Jeff

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