Re: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-0000
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 19:43:16 EST
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 09:43:14 +1030
"Tom Lanyon" <tomlanyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How can I discover
> what is trying to load binfmt-0000 and why is it looping?
Start with this, I guess..
--- a/kernel/kmod.c~a
+++ a/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -98,10 +98,12 @@ int request_module(const char *fmt, ...)
atomic_inc(&kmod_concurrent);
if (atomic_read(&kmod_concurrent) > max_modprobes) {
/* We may be blaming an innocent here, but unlikely */
- if (kmod_loop_msg++ < 5)
+ if (kmod_loop_msg++ < 5) {
printk(KERN_ERR
"request_module: runaway loop modprobe %s\n",
module_name);
+ dump_stack();
+ }
atomic_dec(&kmod_concurrent);
return -ENOMEM;
}
_
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