From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269319AbUJQUjt (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:39:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269318AbUJQUgL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:36:11 -0400 Received: from gprs214-97.eurotel.cz ([160.218.214.97]:13440 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269295AbUJQUdL (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:33:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:26:52 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: John Byrne Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Still a mm bug in the fork error path Message-ID: <20041017202652.GF7476@elf.ucw.cz> References: <416C6915.9080201@hp.com> <416CA0B1.20900@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <416CA0B1.20900@hp.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > In my kernel, it was a SIGKILL to a forking kernel thread that caused > the problem. While I see SIGKILLs being sent to some kernel threads, I > don't know if any of the kernel threads ever fork. If they don't, > barring a demented root user sending SIGKILLs to kernel threads, I don't > know if anyone else will ever see this. So, I don't have any problems > with it being fixed post 2.6.9. Actually I do not think that root sending SIGKILLs to kernel threads is demented... I tried to recover broken machine by SIGKILLing kacpid. It did not work, so I just reniced it to get machine back. Pavel PS: BTW it was evo n620c. There's something wrong with thermal handling after swsusp. Evo will not die by overheat, but it almost damaged machine it was standing on... ouch. Cover got deformed by heat (quite a bit), fortunately it returned to previous shape when it cooled down. -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!