2008/8/20 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>:
quoted text
> Further fix [compat_]do_execve() error handling.  free_bprm() will release the
> cred_exec_mutex, but only if bprm->cred is not NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

David, I applied this patch and got the following.
Is it a different problem?
I think it is. If yes I will create another topic.

[   91.266507] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
[   91.266862] 2.6.27-rc3-next-20080820-dirty #3
[   91.267170] ---------------------------------------------
[   91.267522] sshd/1455 is trying to acquire lock:
[   91.267840]  (&tty->termios_mutex){--..}, at: [<00000000005b8ca0>]
tty_do_resize+0x44/0x128
[   91.268405]
[   91.268411] but task is already holding lock:
[   91.268885]  (&tty->termios_mutex){--..}, at: [<00000000005b8c74>]
tty_do_resize+0x18/0x128
[   91.269436]
[   91.269442] other info that might help us debug this:
[   91.269944] 1 lock held by sshd/1455:
[   91.270219]  #0:  (&tty->termios_mutex){--..}, at:
[<00000000005b8c74>] tty_do_resize+0x18/0x128
[   91.270812]
[   91.270818] stack backtrace:
[   91.271229] Call Trace:
[   91.271474]  [000000000047757c] __lock_acquire+0xfcc/0x1900
[   91.271839]  [0000000000477f0c] lock_acquire+0x5c/0x74
[   91.272198]  [00000000006af2a8] mutex_lock_nested+0xf0/0x310
[   91.272565]  [00000000005b8ca0] tty_do_resize+0x44/0x128
[   91.272916]  [00000000005ba3cc] tty_ioctl+0x360/0x99c
[   91.273266]  [00000000004c0050] vfs_ioctl+0x2c/0x94
[   91.273600]  [00000000004c03b4] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2fc/0x31c
[   91.273953]  [00000000004c0408] sys_ioctl+0x34/0x5c
[   91.274296]  [00000000004e98f0] do_ioctl32_pointer+0x18/0x2c
[   91.274666]  [00000000004ebb04] compat_sys_ioctl+0x3b8/0x40c
[   91.275043]  [0000000000406154] linux_sparc_syscall32+0x34/0x40
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