Comment 14 for bug 7168

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:04:13 +0900
From: Horms <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#255175: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686: system crash due to kernel bug

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:18:54AM +0200, Javier Fern??wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:46:09AM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > Hi Javier,
> >
> > thanks for the feed back. Do you have a reliable way to reproduce this.
>
> Unfortunately no, it just happens from time to time.
>
> > What hardware (CPU) are you running this on?
>
> Pentium III 500Mhz (yes, I know it sucks)
>
> > I am wondering if what you are seeing relates to the clear_fpu() bug,
> > also known as CAN-2004-0554, which effects signal handling. It was
> > fixed in 2.4.26-3 (kernel-source and kernel-image-2.4.26-1-*) and
> > the fix is also present in 2.4.26-4.
>
> I am running now (installed yesterday) kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686, 2.4.26-4,
> I will send info to the bug if it reproduces and will tag the bug
> accordingly (since 2.4.26-4 is in sid, but 2.4.26-2 in sarge).

Hopefully 2.4.26-4 will make it into sarge shortly.
Please let me know how you go with this bug.

--
Horms