Re: OOps in exec_usermodehelper

2000-11-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > On 29 Nov 00 at 1:53, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > hmm.. Quite a few things fixed here. > > > > Could you please test this patch? It's against 2.4.0-test12-pre2, > > should be OK against test11. > > I upgraded to 12-pre2 already ;-) It looks like that it works. Yup.

Re: OOps in exec_usermodehelper

2000-11-28 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 29 Nov 00 at 1:53, Andrew Morton wrote: > hmm.. Quite a few things fixed here. > > Could you please test this patch? It's against 2.4.0-test12-pre2, > should be OK against test11. I upgraded to 12-pre2 already ;-) It looks like that it works. > - keventd is now capable of reaping dead ch

Re: OOps in exec_usermodehelper

2000-11-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Hi, > I have one small problem with 2.4.0-test11 and exec_usermodehelper. > When vmware modules shutdown (specifically vmnet-netifup), kernel tries > to load some module through call_usermodehelper, but unfortunately > from task which has current->files == NULL. hmm..

Re: OOps in exec_usermodehelper

2000-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Hi, > I have one small problem with 2.4.0-test11 and exec_usermodehelper. > When vmware modules shutdown (specifically vmnet-netifup), kernel tries > to load some module through call_usermodehelper, but unfortunately > from task which has current->files == NULL. > >

OOps in exec_usermodehelper

2000-11-27 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi, I have one small problem with 2.4.0-test11 and exec_usermodehelper. When vmware modules shutdown (specifically vmnet-netifup), kernel tries to load some module through call_usermodehelper, but unfortunately from task which has current->files == NULL. So it prints message: waitpid(19457