Re: filp_open() in 2.2.19 causes memory corruption

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 06:50:45 EST


jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org said:
> I've gotten to the bottom of this problem, and you are correct that
> klog is trashing the messages file for the oops.

Oh dear. That's quite a serious bug in klogd. It should never destroy the
original information, _especially_ if the System.map it's looking at
blatantly doesn't match /proc/ksyms.

Have you reported it to your distribution vendor yet?

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dwmw2

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