Re: ptrace patch fails stress testing
Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:45:31 +1000
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 19:22, linas@austin.ibm.com wrote:
> The problem appears to be that task->mm is dereferenced without
> looking to see if mm is NULL. e.g. in the sched.h in the
> is_dumpable() macro, we have task->mm->dumpable . I'm sitting
> in front of a KDB session and I'm clearly looking at task->mm
> which is NULL.
Sorry, KDB is an illegal kernel patch. Linus has spoken, the kernel
does not need debuggers.
All right, assume a smiley there.
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