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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
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> This should fix the big bug that has been crashing kernels when
>  fuser is called.  At least it is the bug I observed here.  It seems
>  you need the right access pattern on /proc/<pid>/maps to trigger this.

Thanks.  Do you think this is likely to fix the crashes reported by
Laurent, Jesper, Paul, Rafael and Martin?