Re: [2.6.36-rc1] List corruption when using initrd.

[Tetsuo Handa]

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > "[2.6.36-rc1] Bugs in __free_pipe_info()".
> 
> That's good, but puzzling.  I'll mention it in the patch comment, since
> that's what you've found: but I've given up trying to understand how.

Yeah, it's puzzling. What I was doing is

  ./newns ./foo | grep -vF OK

where "./newns" calls mount("tmpfs") after clone(CLONE_NEWNS)
and ./foo calls chroot()/mount("tmpfs")/umount()/pivot_root() etc.

After applying your patch, I can no longer reproduce __free_pipe_info() errors.
I don't know why __free_pipe_info() errors are reported on "grep" rather than
"newns" or "foo". But if the cause of __free_pipe_info() errors was memory
corruption by the bug in shmem, it is possible that fixing the bug in shmem
solves __free_pipe_info() errors.

Thanks.
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