Re: [uml-devel] Fwd: Re: UML kernel crash of v2.6.36-rcX kernel

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Oct 18 2010 - 05:09:56 EST


2010/10/18 Toralf FÃrster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx>:
> Well, in addition to my last mail the following patch isn't a fix, but it
> might point to the culprit.
> If I apply this patch against latest tree, then the crash doesn't occur :
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/statfs.h b/include/linux/statfs.h
> index 0166d32..e336e70 100644
> --- a/include/linux/statfs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/statfs.h
> @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ struct kstatfs {
> Â Â Â Â__kernel_fsid_t f_fsid;
> Â Â Â Âlong f_namelen;
> Â Â Â Âlong f_frsize;
> - Â long f_flags;
> Â Â Â Âlong f_spare[4];
> + long f_flags;
> Â};

So it probably is accessing f_spare[4] somewhere...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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