Created attachment 412958 [details] Reproducer Customer sees the attached reproducer produce unkillable processes. The attached patch has been shown to resolve the issue in a GSS-provided test-kernel.
On second thought I'll link the patch since its already hosted. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs//old/clone-fix-race-between-copy_process-and-de_thread.patch
cscope-15.7a-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cscope-15.7a-1.fc12
cscope-15.7a-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
(In reply to comment #1) > > On second thought I'll link the patch since its already hosted. > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs//old/clone-fix-race-between-copy_process-and-de_thread.patch Yes, this patch should fix the problem. I think the backport is trivial. Will do tomorrow, although I hope Jiri can do this before me ;)
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in kernel-2.6.18-221.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5 Detailed testing feedback is always welcomed.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html