From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758999AbYEHH3p (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 03:29:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756488AbYEHH3g (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 03:29:36 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.233]:39064 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756038AbYEHH3f (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 03:29:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=giIJsicLt9+xPlFrrcZ5ZaYUIDiolFD1tf3JC80sW2i4ZmvGGdNFgHP0qs2BZSYkucGJPsviACXfO/ArE4RqcvCs5A6Eu7HWX1x6s0LuH9EqjoTrv8l9W27g/o0qJOUuVWKTBqZ9yVLAdpibCUZojrPQ+Uc0YxqwLmMrAn3Uo/8= Message-ID: <19f34abd0805080029w1415b7jc4edd2772f7086e4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 09:29:34 +0200 From: "Vegard Nossum" To: "Lin Ming" Subject: Re: ACPI: kmemcheck: Caught 16-bit read from freed memory (f7c12ec6) Cc: "Pekka Enberg" , "Bob Moore" , "Alexey Starikovskiy" , "Len Brown" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1210229802.23330.4.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <19f34abd0805060909q635d2d43j9414e5f179c9e22f@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020805061338yd6e3declaf5ff9ca344c28ba@mail.gmail.com> <19f34abd0805061346q4af7e4f8kd65009f8d3021d0e@mail.gmail.com> <4820C56C.6070204@cs.helsinki.fi> <19f34abd0805071221o236c8629ib184a4720f178e7b@mail.gmail.com> <1210224923.22503.8.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> <19f34abd0805072305i19dc37bn3e13fbca4b6981e3@mail.gmail.com> <1210227145.23183.7.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> <19f34abd0805072331i2a33ee7bl940d46c478cc62d9@mail.gmail.com> <1210229802.23330.4.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Lin Ming wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 08:05 +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Lin Ming wrote: > > > > > Here comes a simple patch that fixes the warning in my machine. > > > > > > > > > > Vegard, would you please help to test it in your machine? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the try, but unfortunately this does not solve the problem. > > > > > > It's strange. > > > In my machine, without this patch the warning shows up > > > With this patch applied the waring goes away > > > > Ah. That is strange indeed. > > > > > Would you please upload the acpidump file? > > > > Which file is this or how can I produce it? Please tell me the exact > > parameters to pass to the command line. > > Please download acpidump util from > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools-20071116.tar.bz2 > > Run "acpidump > acpidump.out" as root > > Then upload acpidump.out to somewhere I can access > > Lin Ming You can find it here: http://userweb.kernel.org/~vegard/bugs/20080508-acpi/ (When running acpidump I got some message, now gone from the screen unfortunately, but it said something like 0B checksum failed? Hm, well, it seemed to produce the file anyway.) Hope this helps. Thanks! Vegard -- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036