Re: kernel 2.6.39 (user mode linux) crashes (2.6.38 works fine)

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri May 20 2011 - 13:19:20 EST


On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 18:24 +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> 2011/5/20 Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>:
> >

> Here in futex_wake() happens a NULL pointer dereference.
> Steve, any ideas?
>

Yes, if this is from the bisect, and does not contain the two commits
that I've posted in another email. Without those fixes, the futex code
will error and return without doing the proper work and cause all sorts
of bugs.

-- Steve


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