Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-07-03-27.tar.gz uploaded

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Apr 07 2007 - 13:54:14 EST


On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:30:04 +0200 Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx napisaÅ(a):
> > The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-07-03-27.tar.gz has been uploaded to
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-04-07-03-27.tar.gz
> >
> > It contains the following patches against 2.6.21-rc6:
> >
>
> LTP triggered a ptrace problem.
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kernel BUG at kernel/ptrace.c:1281!

umm, Roland, if you're going to add assertions which only function with
CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled, you'd better test with CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled ;)


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

We hold read_lock(tasklist_lock) in here.

Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

kernel/ptrace.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/ptrace.c~utrace-fix-bug kernel/ptrace.c
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c~utrace-fix-bug
+++ a/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1278,8 +1278,6 @@ found:
current->pid, tsk->pid, p->pid, exit_code,
p->exit_state, p->exit_signal);

- NO_LOCKS;
-
/*
* If there was a group exit in progress, all threads report that
* status. Most will have SIGKILL in their own exit_code.
_


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