Re: lkml, bugme.osdl.org?

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 04:35:59 EST


wli@holomorphy.com said:
>> Is there any chance you can send a testcase my way? I've got some
>> testboxen that are good at bringing out races (NUMA stuff is beautiful
>> for that -- I don't consider anything racetested until it passes
>> there.)

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:34:22AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> The race in vmalloc is purely theoretical but blatantly obvious -- I don't
> think anyone's actually triggered it though. You have already tried the fix
> and reported it works fine. Apparently for akpm ioremap() returns a
> bogus value to the aic7xxx driver and the box locks up. I can't see why it
> could do that -- more eyes welcome...

I'm sorry, that's already so; acked as it stands from prior testing, and
excellent auditwork on your part to boot.

Thanks,
Bill
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