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From: "young dave" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
To: "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1 NTFS & SLUB related fix
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 05:22:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8e1da0705242222n2414a66bo97d20c82c6a497e4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705242202340.1327@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

Hi,

> Is this ntfs_init_locked_inode?

Yes, it is.

> >  Bytes b4 0xc2959e28:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
> >    Object 0xc2959e38:  24 00 51 00 00 00 6b a5
> >   Redzone 0xc2959e40:  00 00 cc cc
>
> First two bytes after the object overwritten. The allocation for this
> object should have been two bytes longer.
>
> > Last alloc: ntfs_init_locked_inode+0x9e/0x110 jiffies_ago=5140 cpu=0 pid=1604
>
> This is the function that allocated a too short object.
>

Only the last one byte of  the string  is zeroed, but It malloced 2
more byte appended the string because size of thentfschar type is 2
bytes , is this the reason? But why?

Regards
dave

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-25  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-25  5:01 young dave
2007-05-25  5:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-25  5:22   ` young dave [this message]
2007-05-25  5:47     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-25  6:27       ` young dave
2007-05-25  6:43         ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-25  6:48           ` young dave
2007-05-25  7:01             ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-25  7:10               ` young dave
2007-05-25  7:18                 ` Andrew Morton

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