From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slab corruption on 2.6.10-rc4-bk7
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:42:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050220024257.GA16811@havoc.gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050219144147.4c771d4f.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 02:41:47PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > (This has actually been there for a while, but I only
> > noticed it in dmesg this morning).
> > During boot on a dual em64t I see ..
> >
> > scsi2 : ata_piix
> > isa bounce pool size: 16 pages
> > slab error in cache_free_debugcheck(): cache `size-2048': double free, or memory outside object was overwritten
> >
> > Call Trace:<ffffffff80163448>{cache_free_debugcheck+392} <ffffffff801646aa>{kfree+234}
> > <ffffffff88065189>{:libata:ata_pci_init_one+937} <ffffffff801fe9ea>{pci_bus_read_config_word+122}
> > <ffffffff880707f2>{:ata_piix:piix_init_one+498} <ffffffff80202926>{pci_device_probe+134}
> > <ffffffff802691ad>{driver_probe_device+77} <ffffffff802692cb>{driver_attach+75}
> > <ffffffff802696c9>{bus_add_driver+169} <ffffffff802025e3>{pci_register_driver+131}
> > <ffffffff88074010>{:ata_piix:piix_init+16} <ffffffff80152c58>{sys_init_module+344}
> > <ffffffff8010e52a>{system_call+126}
> > ffff81011e49f4a0: redzone 1: 0x5a2cf071, redzone 2: 0x5a2cf071.
> >
>
> It's plain to see how ata_pci_init_one() will free `probe_ent' twice. Jeff
> wanna fix that up please? A naive fix would be
I'll take a look at it tomorrow when I get back home; it's not that
simple, as if you look through BK history, you'll see an almost reverse
patch applied, to fix another double-kfree (author: zaitcev).
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-20 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-19 22:16 Dave Jones
2005-02-19 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-20 2:42 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-02-21 4:28 ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2005-02-21 4:35 ` [PATCH #2] " Jeff Garzik
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