Re: Crash with 2.0.33

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:46:26 +0100 (BST)


> In a low-memory situation (process table filling up all memory) the
> system crashes completely (no response to anything but the reset line)
> after I manually load serial.o using insmod (modprobe doesn't load the
> module, although it pretends everything went ok; kerneld doesn't load
> the module either).

Is that repeatable to order

> Suspect:
> The insert code does not check whether there is enough physical memory
> available.

Not the case - I just looked. The actual insmod checks the area it gets,
the serial driver does no further allocations at load time in 2.0

Alan

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