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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Subject: Re: 2.6.36-rc1 -- BUG: kmalloc-4096: Object already free -- INFO: Allocated in wireless_send_event+0x21d/0x344
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:44:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282311842.3793.11.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinNw9859ihV4VM=x7sQuF0aoSw1asc0_EujXXrC@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:20 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> Is this indicative of a kernel bug or just problems with userspace apps?
> 
> [   44.455666] BUG kmalloc-4096: Object already free
> [   44.455670] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [   44.455673]
> [   44.455685] INFO: Allocated in wireless_send_event+0x21d/0x344
> age=0 cpu=1 pid=635

It's a bug that even exists in 2.6.35, fixed here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=daa3766e705c2605bd7f63b80c7742014ef9e04e
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=68d6ac6d2740b6a55f3ae92a4e0be6d881904b32

johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-18 19:20 Miles Lane
2010-08-20 13:44 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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