> Applied to > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next-creds > > Hopefully this will be in the next linux-next tree for testing. > > Alexander, please let us know if it fixes the problem you saw. Yes, it seems fixed. David, there is one more problem. 2.6.27-rc3-next-20080820: [ 22.266394] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ] [ 22.266495] ------------------------------------- [ 22.266594] khelper/8 is trying to release lock (&p->cred_exec_mutex) at: [ 22.266775] [<00000000006af9f8>] mutex_unlock+0x10/0x20 [ 22.266881] but there are no more locks to release! [ 22.266982] [ 22.266987] other info that might help us debug this: [ 22.267136] no locks held by khelper/8. [ 22.267224] [ 22.267229] stack backtrace: [ 22.267343] Call Trace: [ 22.267436] [000000000047800c] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xe8/0xf8 [ 22.267569] [0000000000478338] lock_release+0x98/0x1ac [ 22.267685] [00000000006af954] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xbc/0x150 [ 22.267816] [00000000006af9f8] mutex_unlock+0x10/0x20 [ 22.267931] [00000000004b81fc] free_bprm+0x1c/0x3c [ 22.268043] [00000000004b93d4] do_execve+0x230/0x254 [ 22.268158] [00000000004273d8] sparc_execve+0x64/0xb0 [ 22.268284] [0000000000406194] linux_sparc_syscall+0x34/0x44 [ 22.268407] [0000000000432cf0] kernel_execve+0x20/0x34 [ 22.268535] [0000000000462fa8] ____call_usermodehelper+0xf4/0x10c [ 22.268661] [0000000000427260] kernel_thread+0x3c/0x54 [ 22.268779] [0000000000462e7c] __call_usermodehelper+0x7c/0xb4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html