[RHEL 5.5] The kernel crashes when stap is executed

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Issue

  • Running systemtap probes that change local variables, parameters or return values can cause memory corruption and system crashes.

# stap -vg write_pname_arg_num.stp samp_write 5 2 guide_ 5

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 5
  • Architecture: ia64
  • kernel: 2.6.18-194.el5
  • systemtap-1.1-3.el5

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