On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:39:55PM +0800, lepton wrote:
> There is a bug in os_free_irq_by_cb, when the first element
> of active_fds list is free, the value of active_fds is not
> updated, just value in stack is updated.
Man, that sucks.
Nice spotting.
>
> The intresting thing is that without this patch, a poweroff
> in user mode linux guest will halt the host linux system.It
> seems that after the tracing thread is dead, the syscall to
> sys_reboot of the traced thread is executed by host. I don't
> know if it is another bug.
I would say that you shouldn't be running UMLs as root. However, a
sys_reboot shouldn't escape being ptraced either. This is a bug, but
I don't see any connection between it and ptrace missing a final
system call.
Jeff
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