Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 15:31:16 EST


On Mon, Mar 06 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I don't see how it could be, honestly, we would gladly oops in locally
> close places if that was the case. If you disable slab debug/poison, do
> you get a nice NULL pointer dereference instead? There have been some
> reports on a NULL queue for sr devices as of lately, I wonder if some
> SCSI change recently was broken.
>
> Tejun, I seem to recall you looking at this, but I can't seem to locate
> the thread. Did anything come of it?

This is the one:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114041855331295&w=2

Also an -mm report, btw. Does this reproduce with 2.6.16-rcX latest?

--
Jens Axboe

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