Re: Memory corruption warnings triggered by repeated slabinfo -v

[Eric Dumazet]

Le samedi 17 dÃcembre 2011 Ã 15:06 -0500, Alex VillacÃs Lasso a Ãcrit :
> El 16/12/11 22:28, Eric Dumazet escribiÃ:
> > Le vendredi 16 dÃcembre 2011 Ã 21:14 -0500, Alex VillacÃs Lasso a
> > Ãcrit :
> >> I am running Fedora 16 x86_64 and testing vanilla kernel 3.2-rc5. I
> >> wanted to test the slabinfo program, so I wrote a small shell script
> >> slabinfo-forever.sh (attached) that invokes slabinfo -v every 3 seconds.
> >> Just by doing this, I was able to trigger several memory validation
> >> warnings, attached in this message. The reason I wanted to test slabinfo
> >> is because back when I was running Fedora 14, I had some video issues
> >> that seemed consistent with memory corruption. I tried to submit a
> >> kernel bug at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42312 just
> >> before the kernel.org hack issue, but bugzilla.kernel.org never came up
> >> after that.
> > Problem is known and fixes were submitted.
> >
> >
> Still happening in 3.2-rc6. The dmesg output is attached.
> 
> What are the git commits of the fixes? Are they scheduled to go into 3.2 
> stable?

Fixes were submitted but not yet accepted in mainline.



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/