From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 04:15:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 04:15:15 -0500 Received: from d12lmsgate-4.de.ibm.com ([194.196.100.237]:37863 "EHLO d12lmsgate-4.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 04:15:14 -0500 Importance: Normal Sensitivity: Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.63 tsk->usage count. To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.8 June 18, 2001 Message-ID: From: "Martin Schwidefsky" Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:24:03 +0100 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D12ML016/12/M/IBM(Release 5.0.9a |January 7, 2002) at 28/02/2003 10:25:16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > This actually looks wrong, it ends up doing free_user() twice because a > final put_task_struct() does that too these days. > > Does this alternate patch work for you instead? Works fine. I had a "Badness in __put_task_struct at kernel/fork.c:77" from time to time. I couldn't reproduce this with your patch. blue skies, Martin