> when this happened, and I was not able to log in onto any console or
> terminal afterwards (probably because tty_open failed very miserably
> on the way?)
Its a deliberate debugging trap.
> #if DEBUG
> if (cachep->flags & SLAB_POISON)
> if (kmem_check_poison_obj(cachep, objp))
> BUG();
> ^^^^^^ This one is triggered
Someone freed memory and then scribbled on it.
The first thing useful here is to know which drivers you were using shortly
before the oops
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