From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964772AbVL1IdS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:33:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932516AbVL1IdS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:33:18 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:22925 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932515AbVL1IdR (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:33:17 -0500 Subject: Re: [vma list corruption] Re: proc_pid_readlink oopses again on 2.6.14.5 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Al Viro Cc: Joshua Kwan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051228065354.GE27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20051228065354.GE27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:33:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1135758794.2935.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (-2.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -2.8 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > So you've got 0xb7c1fc20 as vma. Which is not good, since that's a userland > address. sounds like it may also be a good idea to check for rootkits; some of those try to muck with the vma chains and stuff.... and break if the kernel changes a bit.