From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750772AbWE1PiT (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 May 2006 11:38:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750776AbWE1PiT (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 May 2006 11:38:19 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:49100 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750772AbWE1PiS (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 May 2006 11:38:18 -0400 To: Tony Griffiths Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: PROBLEM: /proc (procfs) task exit race condition causes a kernel crash References: <44764F35.9050002@agile.tv> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 09:37:13 -0600 In-Reply-To: <44764F35.9050002@agile.tv> (Tony Griffiths's message of "Fri, 26 May 2006 10:43:33 +1000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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 I have tried to reproduce this. The circumstances weren't the most controlled but they did overlap with what you described and I haven't seen anything. So I am guessing that you are having memory corruption from some source. Either bad ram or a bad module. I'm off on vacation for a week, so I won't be able to follow up. Eric