Re: [BUG] 2.6.3 Slab corruption: errors are triggered when memoryexceeds 2.5GB (correction)

From: David S. Miller
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 02:04:59 EST


On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:21:56 +0100
Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 0x620 (1568) is behind the end of the actual eth frame. Who could modify
> that?

At the end of the SKB data area is where we keep struct skb_shared_info, something
is messing with the SKB state after a free it appears.

And since it's turning the debugging value 0x6b to 0x6a it must be the
"atomic_t dataref;" that is being mucked with.
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