Re: slab errors

From: Manfred Spraul
Date: Thu Oct 28 2004 - 12:38:12 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:

Hi,

I get this when booting 2.6.10rc1-bk6 on x86-64. slab doesn't seem
to like its own initialization.



I'm not aware of any slab changes. Were there any changes to the memset function? I think slab debug is the only codepath that uses memset to nonzero values.

0000010001102450: redzone 1: 0x5a2cf071, redzone 2: 0x5a2c5a5a.


Extremely odd: a byte in the middle no overwritten?

0000010001102868: redzone 1: 0x5a2cf071, redzone 2: 0x5a2cf05a.


Two bytes not overwritten.

0000010001103098: redzone 1: 0x5a2cf071, redzone 2: 0x5a5a5a5a5a5a5a.


Everything overwritten.

--
Manfred
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