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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:21:38 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Craig Dooley <cd5697@albany.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Scott Feldman <scott.feldman@intel.com>
Subject: Re: e100 Possible bug
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Craig Dooley <cd5697@albany.edu> wrote:
>
> Dmesg is filled with errors of slab corruption.  Seems to be e100 related, but 
> maybe alloc_skb.  Dont know the networking code very well.  
> 
> - -Craig
> 
> ## Uname ##
> Linux broken.xlnx-x.net 2.5.66 #1 Thu Mar 27 09:17:40 EST 2003 i686 unknown 
> unknown GNU/Linux
> 
> ## Error ##
> Slab corruption: start=e739b000, expend=e739b7ff, problemat=e739b012
> Data: ******************28 A0 00 00 12 B8 39 27 ****EA C5 F0 05 00 00 08 00 00 
> 00 33 02 ********00 02 B3 46 6E 5D 00 02 B3 46 70 DF 08 00 
> ***************************************************************************

There have been about three reports of this, all against e100.  It does seem
that something in there is altering an skb after it was freed.