Re: namespaces?: bug at mm/slub.c:2750

[Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> In case you missed it, KOSAKI Motohiro posted a similar stack-trace
>> (but not the same BUG) in this thread:
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/10/7
>>
>
> Both traces include the newly-added put_cred_rcu().  Suspicious.
>

I have this test case which triggers it regularly after some minutes:

#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
        unsigned int i;

        if (fork() == 0) {
                while (1)
                        system("echo -n .");
        }

        for (i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
                if (fork() == 0) {
                        while (1) {
                                setreuid(0, 0xcafeba);
                                setreuid(0xcafeba, 0);

                                setreuid(0, 0xcafebb);
                                setreuid(0xcafebb, 0);
                        }

                        exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
                }
        }

        while (!(wait(NULL) == -1 && errno == ECHILD))
                ;

        return 0;
}

It seems to be the combination of exec() and setreuid(), but I
couldn't get it to work with just exec() instead of system(). It is
possible that CONFIG_USER_SCHED must be =y for this to work. It can
probably be simplified too...


Vegard

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