Re: Thread stuck in aioprn

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:01:20 -0400
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:58:35PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:56:06PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:11:06AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > > Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > 
> > > >I guess I was unclear: the stress2 test calls random syscalls with
> > > >random arguments, so the error condition is probably from insufficient
> > > >sanity checking of the input in aio_read().
> > > 
> > > Just a thought - does that include using random values of 0,1,2 for file 
> > > descriptor?
> > 
> > I'd presume it could happen.
> > 
> 
> Lots of syscalls will hang in this test, but the stress test
> environment will send a SIGHUP and a SIGKILL when the default RUNTIME
> has expired. That's the theory, anaway.

Yep, this one is unkillable, which is the problem (it's run as non-root,
too).

Kris

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