Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.2 - unable to handle kernel paging request - still accessing freed memory

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Mar 16 2007 - 06:26:05 EST


Hi Chris,

On 3/16/07, Chris Rankin <rankincj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That would take ages - the only reason I kept on plugging away with winecfg last night
was because I was fairly certain the kernel was going to "oops" eventually (which it did).
But when exactly would I be able to declare a kernel "good" during a "git bisect"?

Yeah, if you can't reproduce at will, git bisect is very impractical.
Please try out the following patch to see if we catch a reference
counting underflow:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm2/broken-out/detect-atomic-counter-underflows.patch
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