Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

[Robert Love]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 22:22 +0100, Peter Osterlund wrote:

> > > >         EIP is a strncpy_from_user+0x33/0x47
> > > >         ...
> > > >         Call Trace:
> > > >          getname+0x69/0xa5
> > > >          sys_open+0x12/0xc6
> > > >          sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x75
> > > >         ...
> > > >         Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> I found the if I disable CONFIG_INOTIFY, the problem goes away.

Weird.  While we touch sys_open() with an inotify hook, we do so after
the call to getname, and we don't touch getname() or strncpy_from_user()
at all.

I wonder if there is another bug and inotify is just affecting the
timing?

	Robert Love


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