Hi Richard,

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 15:41 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 5774ed01 (shm: handle separate PID namespaces case)
> b34a6b1d (ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl)
> 4c677e2e (shm: optimize locking and ipc_namespace getting)
> 
> broke UML on i386.
> It crashes while starting up by SIGSEGV.
> exit_shm() seems to be the evil doer.

I was reported 20 mins ago that it's reproducable on MIPS too.

> Reverting all three patches make UML work again.

Can you confirm that 5774ed01 breaks the boot? (it is for MIPS)


> Commit 5774ed01 removed the !ns->shm_rmid_forced check, maybe this is wrong?

No, it's not the reason.

> ---cut---
> #13 0x08067efb in hard_handler (sig=11) at 
> arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/signal.c:12
> #14 <signal handler called>
> #15 __list_add (sem=0x824cc98, subclass=0) at include/linux/list.h:44
> #16 list_add_tail (sem=0x824cc98, subclass=0) at include/linux/list.h:76
> #17 __down_write_nested (sem=0x824cc98, subclass=0) at 
> lib/rwsem-spinlock.c:232
> #18 0x081c7ba1 in __down_write (sem=0x824cc98) at lib/rwsem-spinlock.c:252
> #19 0x081c74a3 in down_write (sem=0x824cc98) at kernel/rwsem.c:51
> #20 0x08139913 in exit_shm (task=0x9c73b60) at ipc/shm.c:308
> #21 0x08075649 in do_exit (code=0) at kernel/exit.c:983
> #22 0x08081dd2 in ____call_usermodehelper (data=0x9c6bce0) at 
> kernel/kmod.c:187
> #23 0x08065c18 in run_kernel_thread (fn=0x8081ce4 <____call_usermodehelper>, 
> arg=0x9c6bce0, 
> jmp_ptr=0x9c73d94)
>     at arch/um/os-Linux/process.c:268
> #24 0x080588cb in new_thread_handler () at arch/um/kernel/process.c:153
> #25 0x00000000 in ?? ()
> ---cut---

Can you post the whole oops message?  I'd want to see what pointer is
NULL.

Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments

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