Re: Linux 2.4.9-ac16

Tim Connors (tcon@Physics.usyd.edu.au)
Sat, 29 Sep 2001 03:15:28 +1000 (EST)


On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Stefan Becker wrote:
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> > > * Update the VM to Rik's latest bits
> >
> > "swapoff -a" gives:
> >
> > Sep 28 17:25:25 unknown kernel: Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm
> > area (e105a000)
>
> It seems Al Viro forgot to remove a free() when cleaning
> up some code. Hugh Dickens has already posted a patch to
> fix this.

Hmmm. Just searched for it and can't find. Did find references to that
syslog entry being a potentially bad bug though. I presume it is
benign in this situation?

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