From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755368AbYIDX0U (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:26:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751862AbYIDX0E (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:26:04 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46785 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751005AbYIDX0C (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:26:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:25:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: Thomas Gleixner , sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, ebiederm@xmission.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, sam@ravnborg.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 3 In-Reply-To: <20080904161746.dc4800a4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20080903191619.6b6b230e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20080903214634.ea17ff53.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080903223318.84b6ce8b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080904012544.cabed847.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080904015701.5959623a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080904104554.32ffebea.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080904113408.d47c65f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080904161746.dc4800a4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > erm, I might have lost that binary, and it only happened the once. It > happened shortly after the machine had fully booted, during > establishment of the first sshd session. Considering that both this and your odd /proc/net issue look like memory corruption, maybe CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC are worth testing? Linus