Re: RFC: Reproducible oops with lockdep on count_matching_names()

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Nov 05 2007 - 07:24:08 EST


Hi Michael,

On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 21:06 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Who is responsible for slab btw?
> I mean, someone should be interested in getting this bug fixed. :)
> When using slab I see random corruptions. I think related to rmmod, but
> I'm not sure. I don't see this with slub.

Is CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB enabled? Usually these kind of random corruptions
are caused by someone passing a bad pointer to kfree() or
kmem_cache_free().

Pekka
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