Bug 93651 - access to /proc/<pid> of a process does hang

Oliver Bandel <oliver-kernelbt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:35:42 +0100

Hello,

want to let you know about this bug:

Stack-overflow: no Signalled crash, just hanging and eating CPU and some mem,
increasing load, blocking tools that access /proc/<pid>  of the  
hanging executable.

[ Product: File System ]

  Bug 93651 - access to /proc/<pid> of a process does hang
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93651

See also:

[ Product: Process Management ]

  Bug 93311 - Unkillable processes, where then even accessing  
/proc/<pid-of-that-process> blocks
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93311

Ciao,
   Oliver

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