Bug 12505
| Summary: | 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load | ||
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| Product: | Other | Reporter: | Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw) |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | other_other |
| Status: | CLOSED CODE_FIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | 2.6.29-rc1 | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | Yes | Bisected commit-id: | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 12398 | ||
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Description
Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-01-19 14:55:09 UTC
Caused by: commit 4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191 Author: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Date: Fri Dec 5 17:17:09 2008 -0800 x86: signal: change type of paramter for sys_rt_sigreturn() Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> First-Bad-Commit : 4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191 On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Justin Mattock wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > * Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> >> > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> >> > of recent regressions.
> >> >
> >> > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> >> > from 2.6.28. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know
> >> > (either way).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12505
> >> > Subject : 2.6.29-rc1 Firefox crashing on page load
> >> > Submitter : Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>
> >> > Date : 2009-01-16 20:56 (20 days old)
> >> > First-Bad-Commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4217458dafaa57d8e26a46f5d05ab8c53cf64191
> >> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123213941914274&w=4
> >> > Handled-By : Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Well the hardest for this, was to reproduce
> >> the error.(never did). I guess it can be taken
> >> of if there was a patch for the fix, and the patch
> >> made it into the main tree. but if this is a firefox
> >> issue, then a report needs to be filed with them.
> >> so overall my answer is "I don't know."
> >> :^)
> >
> > the error is spurious because gcc randomly stomps on user register state so
> > the effects can be rather random and unpredictable.
> >
> > The fix:
> >
> > 552b8aa: Revert "x86: signal: change type of paramter for
> sys_rt_sigreturn()"
> >
> > was included in -rc2 already, so please test latest -git whether you can
> see
> > any such troubles.
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