Re: [OOPS] linux-2.4.21-pre3-ac4 @ free_pages_ok()

Bryan Andersen (bryan@bogonomicon.net)
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:22:03 -0600


Actually a patch is already out there.

From: hugh@veritas.com
Subject: [PATCH] 2.4.21-pre3-ac oops

--- 2.4.21-pre3-ac4/kernel/fork.c Mon Jan 13 18:56:12 2003
+++ linux/kernel/fork.c Sun Jan 19 13:39:37 2003
@@ -688,6 +688,8 @@
p->lock_depth = -1; /* -1 = no lock */
p->start_time = jiffies;

+
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->local_pages);
+
retval = -ENOMEM;
/* copy all the process information */
if (copy_files(clone_flags, p))

-- Bryan

Byron Stanoszek wrote:
> I've seen this oops report before, but since nobody's posted a fix for it or
> anything, I figured I'll post the one I saw. I got a series of two oopses after
> untarring a 200MB tarfile. (The system has 512MB of memory and was recently
> booted into 2.4.21-pre3-ac4). Here they are, plus boot-dmesg at the bottom.

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