Re: 2.6.0-test7 oops in proc_pid_stat

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 02:31:22 EST


On Thu, Oct 09, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > Linux version 2.6.0-test7 (olaf@zert152) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 SMP Thu
> > Oct 9 08:49:29 CEST 2003
> >
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 0000003c
>
> Ok, this seems to be due to the move of the job control fields from
> the task structure to the signal structure.
>
> That looks like a bad idea, and the best thing to do is likely to just
> revert the whole thing.

I have reverted these two patches and fixed the reject in sched.h, no
oops since 9 hours.

# 03/10/05 akpm@xxxxxxxx[torvalds] 1.1451.4.16
# [PATCH] move job control fields from task_struct to

# 03/10/05 akpm@xxxxxxxx[torvalds] 1.1451.4.17
# [PATCH] fix "compat ioctl consolidation" for "move job

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