Re: filp_open() in 2.2.19 causes memory corruption

Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org)
Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:32:48 -0600


On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:03:48PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> manfred@colorfullife.com said:
> > Are you sure the trace is decoded correctly?
>
> > > CPU: 0
> > > EIP: 0010:[sys_mremap+31/884]
>
> Probably not. It looks like it was munged by klogd. Some distributions are
> still shipping with klogd configured to destroy the original information on
> the way to the log, without even making it do a sanity check that the
> System.map it's using actually matches the current kernel.
>
> Jeff, please disable the broken klogd symbol munging and reproduce it,
> running the oops through ksymoops manually. Ksymoops should have built-in
> sanity checks on the System.map it tries to use.
>
> Also, please make sure you report this as a serious bug with the vendor of
> whatever distribution you're running on this box.
>

David,

I will comply and repost the oops.

Jeff

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>
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