On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:46:07AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> hm, i just triggered the procfs crash below with -rc9 on a testbox.
> Config attached. It's easy to reproduce it via 'service sshd restart'.
> The crash site is:
>
> (gdb) list *0xc017599d
> 0xc017599d is in seq_path (fs/seq_file.c:354).
> 349 if (m->count < m->size) {
> 350 char *s = m->buf + m->count;
> 351 char *p = d_path(dentry, mnt, s, m->size - m->count);
> 352 if (!IS_ERR(p)) {
> 353 while (s <= p) {
> 354 char c = *p++;
> 355 if (!c) {
> 356 p = m->buf + m->count;
> 357 m->count = s - m->buf;
> 358 return s - p;
> (gdb)
>
> any ideas? Fortunately i was able to do an strace of the incident:
Charming... So we get d_path() either returning junk or we get something
that isn't NUL-terminated. Which one it is? I.e. what does p look like
and what's in s?
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